The Dramatic Rise of Farm Labor Contractors Has Led to Rampant Abuses. Here’s Why Regulators Have Failed to Stop Them.

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ASU advocacy groups draw attention to exploitation of migrant farmworkers

Rafael Martinez Olivera remembers waking up for school and his parents were already at work, and coming home to find they were still working because of long, demanding hours. Martinez Olivera is now a ...
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Undocumented Farm Workers Pose a Conundrum for Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign

The nation’s 2.6 million-plus farm workers – an estimated 1 million of them foreign-born– are a natural target of Donald Trump’s ever-escalating mass deportation campaign. About 45% of the total ...
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What It Will Take to Get U.S. Citizens to Work the Farm — According to Dolores Huerta

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The agriculture sector is on edge like never before. With ICE officers chasing undocumented immigrants through fields and barging ...
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Homeland Security Task Force Arrests California Labor Recruiter in Alleged Visa Fraud and Worker Exploitation Case

HSTF apprehends JBB Farms representative in California for alleged worker exploitation in visa fraud scheme. (Photo: ICE) ICE Homeland Security Investigations in Santa Maria arrested three illegal ...
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'This is the new slavery': Migrant farm workers underpaid, abused and injured

Harvesting cannabis in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley as a migrant labourer in 2023, Maria recalls being surprised when her boss invited her and two friends for dinner at his home in the nearby ...