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NPR recently aired a story, “Guest Workers, Legal Yet Not Quite Free, Pick Florida’s Oranges” that featured an H-2A worker, otherwise known as an agricultural guestworker. In an interview at the beginning of the program, a grower of Florida citrus … Read more Digging Deeper: The Expanding H-2A Program in Florida & Worker’s Access to Health

This week NPR aired a story "Guest Workers, Legal Yet Not Quite Free, Pick Florida's Oranges” that featured an H-2A worker, otherwise known as an agricultural guestworker. In an interview at the beginning of the program, a grower of Florida … Read more Digging Deeper: The Real Reason the H-2A Program is Expanding in Florida

Raids Unfortunately, the Department of Homeland Security brought in the new year with a campaign to aggressively round up immigrants from Central America- who are primarily women and children – for deportation. The Department of Homeland Security and President Obama … Read more Immigration Update 1/15/2016

Congress has come to a bipartisan agreement on a spending bill to fund the government for the rest of FY2016 and a tax bill that makes permanent some tax breaks for individuals and corporations. Farmworker Justice is extremely disappointed that … Read more 12/17 Immigration Update: Congress’s Spending Bill Will Remove Labor Protections from Guestworker Program

Several quality news articles in the past few weeks included stories that remind us of the hard work of the workers who plant, harvest and process our food. They also highlight challenges that farmworkers face as a result of poor … Read more Give thanks to farmworkers this Thanksgiving!

Last week we celebrated rural health week. Keeping our rural communities healthy is key to building a stronger America. Farmworkers and their families are essential members of our rural communities, but they are among the most underserved when it comes … Read more Reflecting on Rural Health Week

On One Year Anniversary of the President’s Executive Action, Immigrants Wait for Relief On November 20, 2014, in response to strong organizing and calls for relief by the immigrants’ rights community, President Obama announced a series of administrative actions aimed … Read more Farmworker Justice Immigration Update 11/20/2015

On One Year Anniversary of the President’s Executive Action, Immigrants Wait for Relief On November 20, 2014, in response to strong organizing and calls for relief by the immigrants’ rights community, President Obama announced a series of administrative actions aimed … Read more Farmworker Justice Immigration Update 11/20/2015

Yesterday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision in Texas v. US, upholding the lower court’s order blocking the government from implementing DAPA and expanded DACA. One of the three judges, Judge Carolyn King, dissented from the majority … Read more Farmworker Justice Immigration Update 11/10/2015

Congress The Senate held a failed vote last Tuesday to move forward on Senator Vitter's (R-LA) “The Stop Sanctuary Cities Act.” The legislation proposed to strip federal funding for local law enforcement agencies with community trust policies that promote good … Read more Farmworker Justice Immigration Update 10/26/2015