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- 08/05/2019 NY Times:Estados Unidos esperaba detener a 2000 migrantes, pero solo 35 fueron arrestados
- 08/04/2019 Herald Palladium: An uphill battle: Migrant, seasonal and H-2A farmworkers continue to face a challenging landscape
- 07/29/2019 The Nation: ‘It’s Not Shameful to Work in the Fields. But It’s Hard.
- 07/29/2019 LA Magazine: Amid the Threat of Ramped-Up ICE Raids, a Famed Boyle Heights Arts Organization Is Keeping People Informed
- 07/26/2019 Trump’s proposed H-2A rules would harm, not help, U.S. farm workers and reduce protections for both domestic and foreign field laborers
- 07/22/2019 New York Times:Trump Administration Expands Fast-Tracked Deportations for Undocumented Immigrants
- 07/22/2019 Bakersfield Now: Farmworkers across Kern County fear deportations in the fields
- 07/18/2019 Earth Justice: TRUMP’S EPA KEEPS BRAIN-DAMAGING PESTICIDE IN FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
- 07/18/2019 Chicago Sun Times: 3 children released at O’Hare after being detained by feds more than 12 hours
- 07/17/2019 The Fence Post: UFW calls H-2A changes ‘new low’ while Farm Bureau approves
- 07/16/2019 West Hawaii Today: Trump administration proposes new agriculture immigration rules
- 07/16/2019 New Food Economy: Labor Department proposal may lower minimum wage for seasonal farm workers
- 07/15/2019 Trump’s proposed changes in agricultural guest worker program set ‘a new low of hypocrisy, racism and self-dealing’
- 07/14/2019 The Guardian: Prospect of immigration raids across US spark anxiety, anger and protests
- 07/14/2019 Mother Jones: ICE Started Its Immigration Raids—But Its Agents Got Turned Away
- 07/14/2019 NY Times: ICE Launches Raids Targeting Migrant Families
- 07/12/2019 23 ABC News: Lights for Liberty rally held in Bakersfield call out ‘inhumane’ detention camps
- 07/12/2019 UFW, UFW Foundation join nationwide ‘Lights for Liberty’ vigils in Fresno, Manteca, Santa Rosa, Watsonville, Bakersfield & Monterey
- 07/06/2019 Winchester Star: Struggle to attain legal status continues for local farm worker
- 07/05/2019 The American Prospect: Since Washington, D.C., Won’t Oversee Its Guest Worker Programs, Washington State Will
- 07/04/2019 CNN: Pediatricians share migrant children’s disturbing drawings of their time in US custody
- 07/03/2019 San Francisco Chronicle: Trump administration ending in-person interpreters at immigrants’ first hearings
- 07/02/2019 NPR (KQED): Trump Administration Hits Some Immigrants In U.S. Illegally With Fines Up To $500,000
- 07/02/2019 NBC News: ‘Help’: Photos show hundreds of migrants squashed into cells, appealing for assistance
- 06/29/2019 WCAX(CBS): Arrest of three immigrant farm workers sparks protest