2026 marks the 60th anniversary of the SAWP. Migrant farm workers employed by the SAWP are tied to an employer, are denied equal access to benefits, and are denied social and labour mobility. Workers ...

It’s a new year, and a new way of paying migrant farm workers who are legally in the U.S. and Wisconsin under federally-issued visas – and the changes are drawing ...

Trump said that there will be a temporary pass issued for migrants working at farms and in the hospitality industry to allow employers to have more control after the administration has sent mixed ...

As the Trump administration grapples with potentially conflicting immigration enforcement and economic policy goals affecting the agricultural sector, Bishop Brendan Cahill of Victoria, Texas is ...

Last spring, I took my children strawberry picking. As we chatted excitedly on the way to the "u-pick" farm, I paid little attention to the scenery we passed on the drive. Arriving at the farm, we ...

Louisiana sugarcane farmers acknowledge they depend greatly on migrant workers from Mexico to plant and harvest their crops. (Photo by Olivia Perillo/The Current) In the late summer heat, the hours ...

The Trump administration is launching a new visa program for migrant workers as farmers and hotel owners express concerns that their labor force is being threatened by the president’s mass deportation ...

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:53:33 GMT — Central New York farmers who depend on migrant farm workers from Mexico for spring planting are feeling the effects of swine flu. Andy Reeves, of Reeves Farms in ...

Florida’s farming industry supports 2.2 million jobs and brings in $132 billion to the state’s economy, according to the Department of Agriculture. Many of those jobs are filled through the H-2A visa ...

(SHELBYVILLE, Ky., April 26th, 2004, 4 p.m.)-- More and more Kentucky farmers are relying on migrant workers to harvest their crops. A popular federal program allows farmers to hire the workers, but ...