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Immigration News
- 07/31/2008 San Diego Union Tribune: Obama tells La Raza that immigration reform is a priority
- 07/08/2008 National Journal: Obama: Immigration Reform Will Be A Year One Priority
- 05/21/2008 Orlando Sentinel: Senate ready to consider farm guest-worker plan
- 05/21/2008 Vida en el Valle: New measure could help maintain ag jobs
- 05/17/2008 Ventura County Star: Farmworkers say proposed bill offers them hope
- 05/15/2008 News Release: Emergency Relief Act passes Senate Committee
- 02/15/2008 San Jose Mercury News: Farmworker plan attacked by all sides
- 02/11/2008 San Jose Mercury News: Editorial, AgJobs bill is the best way to ease farmworker shortage
- 02/07/2008 abc30.com: Proposed Change in the Guest Worker Program (includes video 1:52)
- 02/07/2008 The Monitor: A ‘Band-Aid’ – Changes proposed to guest worker program deemed inadequate
- 02/06/2008 Los Angeles Times: Overhaul set for guest-worker plan
- 02/06/2008 News Release: Bush Administration H2A Proposal is Nothing More Than Gutting of Existing Worker Protections
- 12/05/2007 News Release: UFW Responds to Chertoff’s Attack on “No Match” Rule (EN ESPANOL)
- 12/05/2007 News Release: UFW Responds to Chertoff’s Attack on “No Match” Rule
- 12/03/2007 Washington Post Editorial: Rot in the Fields – As farmworkers become scarcer, Congress dithers.
- 11/07/2007 News Release: DECLARACIÓN del PRESIDENTE del UFW ARTURO RODRIGUEZ CON ADMINISTRACIÓN DE BUSH TRATANDO DE CAMBIAR LAS REGLAS DE TRABAJADOR H-2A
- 11/07/2007 News Release: STATEMENT FROM UFW PRESIDENT ARTURO RODRIGUEZ ON BUSH ADMINISTRATION ATTEMPT TO CHANGE H-2A GUESTWORKER RULES
- 11/01/2007 Letter sent by Sen. Kennedy and Sen. Feinstein to President Bush and Secretary Chao, urging support for AgJOBS and objecting to plans to make anti-worker changes to the H-2A guestworker program.
- 11/01/2007 Fresno Bee: Farm bill may boost guest workers
- 10/31/2007 Letter from major labor unions in the United States and Farmworker Justice to the Bush Administration regarding its apparent plans to harm U.S. workers in agriculture by lowering wage rates and removing labor protections in the H-2A agricultural guestworker program.
- 10/31/2007 Seattle Times: Editorial – Dream deferred, Congress to blame
- 10/29/2007 The Nation: Unseen Victims of California Fires
- 10/28/2007 MSNBC: Immigration Raids Hurt Farmers
- 10/26/2007 Austin American-Statesman: Strange bedfellows push immigration bill for farm workers
- 10/25/2007 Arizona Daily Star: DREAM Act immigration bill gets shot down in Senate