As federal immigration sweeps have prompted protests across the nation, the border is eerily quiet, as would-be migrants stay away and undocumented workers hide at home. By Edgar Sandoval Reporting ...
Since our organization, the Family Farm Defenders (FFD), began in the early 1990s, we knew that the fate of food and farm systems around the world are inexorably linked to one another. We witnessed ...
Stanislaus supervisors maintain 10 worker seats despite no applications so far. Recruitment likely hindered by deportation fears among undocumented workers. Board filled roles for grower, labor ...
The nation’s 2.6 million-plus farm workers – an estimated 1 million of them foreign-born– are a natural target of Donald Trump’s ever-escalating mass deportation campaign. About 45% of the total ...