Tag Archives: farmworkers

Axios reports: Under pressure from worried farmers and hotel owners, the Trump administration is launching a program to streamline issuing visas for temporary, migrant workers to try to make sure fruits get picked, meat is packed and lodgings are cleaned. President Trump’s immigration crackdown has put his administration between a MAGA rock and a special-interest hard place. Farmers who rely …

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump suggested at a Cabinet meeting Thursday that undocumented people working on farms and in hotels would be allowed to leave the country and return as legal workers if their employers vouched for them. Trump said at the meeting with reporters present that “we have to take care of our farmers, the hotels and, you …

The Fresno Bee reports: Dozens of demonstrators protested outside the World Ag Expo on its opening day Tuesday to urge farmers and employers to take a stand against potential mass deportations of farmworkers in the Central Valley. Demonstrators held banners that read “Stop Deporting Workers” and “End Harmful Immigration Detention Policies” at the expo’s entrance on the corner of South …

Stateline reports: The National Milk Producers Federation says it’s too early to say how it would cope with mass deportations under the Trump administration. But the group states it “strongly supports efforts to pass agriculture labor reform that provides permanent legal status to current workers and their families and gives dairy farmers access to a workable guestworker program.” Immigrants make …