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The House Appropriations Committee today, in the spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security, inserted a fundamental, substantive policy change to the H-2A temporary foreign agricultural worker program. The amendment would expand the scope of the H-2A program to … Read more Farmworker Justice Condemns House Amendment to the DHS Appropriations Bill Expanding the H-2A Agricultural Guestworker Program to Year-Round Jobs

The House Appropriations Committee today, in the spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security, inserted a fundamental, substantive policy change to the H-2A temporary foreign agricultural worker program. The amendment would expand the scope of the H-2A program to … Read more Farmworker Justice Condemns House Amendment to the DHS Appropriations Bill Expanding the H-2A Agricultural Guestworker Program to Year-Round Jobs

Farmworker Justice strongly supports the Fairness for Farm Workers Act introduced today in the Senate and the House by Sen. Kamala D. Harris of California and Representative Raúl M. Grijalva of Arizona with numerous cosponsors. Farmworker Justice and our partners … Read more Farmworker Justice Statement on the Introduction of the “Fairness for Farm Workers Act” to Grant Agricultural Workers Equal Access to Overtime Pay

The House of Representatives is set to vote this week on two immigration bills— Rep. Goodlatte’s “Securing America’s Future Act” (the “Goodlatte bill”) and the Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2018 (the “Ryan bill”). Farmworker Justice strongly opposes … Read more Farmworker Justice Statement in Opposition to House Immigration Bills

For Immediate Release— April 9, 2018           Contact: Virginia Ruiz, Farmworker Justice director of occupational and environmental health, 202-800-2520 vruiz@farmworkerjustice.org Carrie Apfel, Earthjustice staff attorney, 202-667-4500 ext.4310 Washington, D.C.— Farmworker Justice and Earthjustice filed a lawsuit today to force the … Read more FOIA lawsuit demands information about EPA’s plan to gut pesticide protections: revisions to crucial pesticide protections could let minors work with pesticides, again

Farmworker Justice  March 22, 2018 In a major win for farmworker and health groups, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Wednesday, March 21, 2018 that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Administrator Scott Pruitt illegally … Read more Court Strikes Down Pruitt/EPA Refusal to Implement Pesticide Safety Protections

Leading farmworker organizations and advocates for farmworkers in the United States and Mexico today are submitting a petition under the NAFTA labor side agreement challenging the failure of the United States government to comply with its obligations to protect international … Read more Leading Farmworker Organizations and Advocates in the U.S. and Mexico File Challenge under NAFTA Labor Side Agreement for U.S. Government Denial of Equal Rights to H-2A Agricultural Guestworkers

Farmworker Justice Statement on Rep. Goodlatte’s Anti-Immigrant Bill Yesterday, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Representatives McCaul, Labrador and McSally, released a hard-line anti-immigration proposal entitled the “Securing America’s Future Act.”  Farmworker Justice opposes this multi-faceted … Read more Farmworker Justice Statement on Rep. Goodlatte’s Anti-Immigrant Bill

Report by Trump Administration Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity Fails Farmworkers, their Families and their Communities On January 8, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, Chair of the inter-agency Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity, established by President … Read more Report by Trump Administration Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity Fails Farmworkers, their Families and their Communities

Farmworker Justice Statement on Termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador    Today, the Trump Administration announced termination of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for El Salvador, effective within 18 months (on September 9, 2019). Farmworker Justice … Read more Farmworker Justice Statement on Termination of TPS for El Salvador