Migrant farm workers go on high alert amid immigration raids
President Donald Trump’s immigration policies are creating fear among migrant agricultural communities and could cause a ...
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Farm workers went unmasked during L.A. fires. That’s not supposed to happen.
“The laws on the books are not the laws on the field,” said Roman Pinal, a United Farm Workers organizer. He helped ...
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Farmworkers feed the country, but who protects them from wildfire smoke?
As soon as the Hughes Fire in Northern Los Angeles County erupted Jan.22, the United Farm Workers and other community groups knew they had to deploy thousands of N95 respirators to farmworkers in ...
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Trump's immigration plans will hurt for farm workers and consumers alike, mass deportation or not
“They are filling very critical roles that maybe US or workers are either unwilling or unable to perform.” United Farm Workers Director of Communications Antonio De Loera-Brust told Salon that ...
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Fire smoke protections
As soon as the Hughes Fire erupted Jan.22, the United Farm Workers and other community groups knew they had to deploy thousands of N95 respirators to farmworkers in Ventura County. The UFW ...
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Farmworkers went unmasked during L.A. fires. That’s not supposed to happen.
“The laws on the books are not the laws on the field,” said Roman Pinal, a United Farm Workers organizer. He helped distribute masks to farmworkers in Oxnard, California, during the Hughes Fir ...