PHARR, Texas (Border Report) — As the strong South Texas winds whipped dirt into the air on Wednesday, dozens of migrant field workers harvested onions in a vast field, gathering the crops into ...
(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump has pledged to protect American farmers who rely on migrant workers to operate their farms, but until Thursday, details of how that would work remained limited.
In Plant City, one of Florida’s agricultural hubs, farms depend heavily on migrant labor to keep fields producing and crops from rotting. Local farmer Lee Wroten says nearly all his workforce is made ...
Seven migrant farmworkers from Texas claim they were recruited to work in Iowa where they were paid illegally low wages and forced to live in substandard housing. The workers are suing Remington Seeds ...
In its 45th season, Rainbow Farms grows the produce sold at nearly a dozen area farmers’ markets, its own farm market and for the kitchens of several restaurants. It also invites folks to pick their ...
Surrounded by corn stalks and soybeans, priests and parish members throughout Northwest Indiana gathered at Herr Farms in Lowell to bring an outdoor mass to the migrant workers who are employed on the ...
Migrant Justice activist Jose Ignacio De La Cruz and his stepdaughter Heidi Perez were arrested by Border Patrol in Richford, Vermont on June 14. CBP stated the pair were detained for suspicious ...
Roy McNutt was 17 when he spent a summer picking pickles for America. “It was lousy,” he said. McNutt, now 77, joined thousands of high school teens harvesting cucumbers, melons, strawberries and ...
The last day of March commemorates labor activist and civil rights icon Cesar Chavez, whose fight to better the lives of the nation's farmworkers helped improve the inhumane working conditions of the ...