The agriculture sector is on edge like never before. With ICE officers chasing undocumented immigrants through fields and barging into meatpacking plants, workers are spooked. Even before the farm ...

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Sometimes things come full circle. In 1966, my father, New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, made the first of two visits to Delano, Calif., becoming the only national political figure to unequivocally ...

On Tuesday (08-05-25), Donald Trump stirred controversy on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” by claiming undocumented immigrants are “naturally” suited for farm labor. He contrasted them with “inner city” residents ...

A farmworker at a Southern California cannabis farm died after being injured during a chaotic immigration raid by federal officers, the United Farm Workers said Friday. The labor union did not provide ...

As a young woman in the late 1980s, María Inés Catalán joined a gushing stream of laborers from Mexico chasing seasonal crops in California, following the footsteps of her mother and thousands of ...

The Texas dairy farm worker infected with H5N1 bird flu was not wearing respiratory or eye protection and had been exposed to cattle that appeared to have the same symptoms as those in a nearby farm ...