Items Tagged with 'undocumented workers'

In one of his first acts as president, Joe Biden is sending an immigration bill to Congress that offers a pathway to citizenship for about 11 million undocumented workers, including about a million farmworkers.

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CDFA Secretary Karen Ross said immigration reform “has to happen” and undocumented farmworkers should get legal status.

House Dems are using the pandemic to make the case that undocumented farmworkers get legal status.

A former chief economist for USDA, Joe Glauber, warned recently that the billions of dollars in payments to farmers to offset trade wars and COVID-19 impacts would “attract attention” on an international level. And that’s exactly what’s happening.

The Legislature and governor's office have commissioned a study on farmworker health, as the industry fears for their safety amid the coronavirus pandemic.