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- 12/29/2020 Perishable News: Federal Judge Rejects USDA Changes to H-2A Program
- 12/28/2020 DTN The Progressive Farmer: Injunction Granted on H2A Wage Freeze
- 12/28/2020 Idaho Statesman: Idaho farmers back Trump admin’s plan to lower H-2A wages, but it looks doomed to fail
- 12/27/2020 KMALand: Trump Administration effort to lower H-2A wages looks doomed
- 12/24/2020 The Fresno Bee: Merced judge orders Foster Farms plant to follow COVID-19 safety rules ahead of hearing
- 12/24/2020 Agri-Pulse: Judge blocks H-2A wage rate freeze, reforms
- 12/24/2020 Courthouse News Service: Judge Blocks Federal Wage Freeze on Farmworkers
- 12/23/2020 Center for Public Integrity: Hidden hardship: Guest farmworkers with visas died of COVID-19 in obscurity while Trump planned wage freezes
- 12/21/2020 Las Cruces Sun News: Migrant farmworkers think twice about travel amid COVID-19, lower earnings
- 12/19/2020 USA Today: As COVID-19 vaccine rolls out, undocumented immigrants fear retribution for seeking dose
- 12/19/2020 YakTriNews: Farm workers file lawsuit against Department of Labor
- 12/18/2020 Idaho Press-Tribune: Department of Labor rules to freeze, adjust H-2A worker wages to take effect Monday
- 12/16/2020 KGET 17: UFW protests President Trump’s immigration policies at Yokuts Park
- 12/15/2020 The Bakersfield Californian: Immigrant rights activists gather at Kevin McCarthy’s office, call for prompt action under Biden administration
- 12/15/2020 Agri-Pulse: Daybreak: Newsom extends farmworker housing provision
- 12/15/2020 Bakersfield protest of McCarthy one of 50 events in 27 states urging Biden to dismantle Trump’s anti-immigrant policies
- 12/14/2020 Courthouse News Service: Farmerworkers Ask Judge to Block Federal Wage Freeze
- 12/12/2020 Protect immigrants from deportation, farm workers will urge at human billboard event
- 12/11/2020 Civil Eats: Op-ed: Dear Secretary of Agriculture, This Is Your Chance
- 12/11/2020 The Packer: USDA to reinstate agricultural labor survey
- 12/11/2020 Sierra Sun Times: California Attorney General Xavier Becerra Stands Up Against Trump Administration ‘Attack’ on Farmworker Wages
- 12/09/2020 AgNet West Radio Network: Farmworker Groups Sue Over DOL Decision Regarding Wage Rates
- 12/03/2020 Suit to halt transfer of hundreds of millions a year from farm workers to growers
- 12/02/2020 Tucson Sentinel: Farmworkers’ union sues feds over wage freeze
- 12/02/2020 DTN The Progressive Farmer: Department of Labor Rule Freezing Wages for Ag Workers Challenged