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On Thursday, July 10, an immigration enforcement operation at a cannabis farm in Ventura County resulted in a confrontation with demonstrators.
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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors proclaimed Thursday, April 10, as Dolores Huerta Day, in recognition of the labor leader and civil…
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Earlier this month, a nonprofit organization called Ayudando Latinos A Soñar (ALAS) and three offices owned by the United Farm Workers receive…
On Monday morning, the Immigration Justice Collaborative, the United Farm Workers Foundation (UFW), the Rapid Response Network, Kern ACLU, Bui…
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With challenges and dreams becoming harder to achieve, "The Power of the Mujer" aims to encourage hope, resilience and empowerment to all the …
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) speaks with Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) during a press conference on legislation to make the Deferred Action for Childho…
The massive $1.7 trillion – trillion with a T – bill of which the farmworkers and DREAMers legislation would have been a part of includes a funding boost for the U.S. Border Patrol, which is in line to hire several hundred new agents for what the agency says is an expected influx at the U.S.-Mexico border if Title 42 ends.
As a “guest” of the American government, my father—Salomón Huerta, Sr.—worked as a farmworker during the early 1960s under the Bracero Program. Officially known as the Mexican Farm Labor Program (1942-1964), this guest worker program recruited 4.6 million Mexican laborers to toil in America’s agricultural fields, along with the railroad and mining sectors.