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 ...
Surrounded by corn stalks and soybeans, priests and parish members throughout Northwest Indiana gathered at Herr Farms in Lowell to bring an outdoor mass to the migrant workers who are employed on the ...
Donald Trump’s solution to the farm worker shortage caused by his violent mass deportation campaign is to embrace migrant labor. The New York Times reports that the Trump administration is making it ...
The Trump administration opened a new legal pathway for migrant farm workers, yielding to an aggressive lobbying campaign by the dairy industry and upsetting immigration enforcement hard-liners. The ...
Father Tom Florek gathers with accompaniers, families and form workers before an outdoor supper sponsored by the Catholic Migrant Farmworker Network. Credit: Lisa Bauso In a large field in Michigan, ...
A legal migrant farm worker was fatally injured while working at a major sweet potato farm in Nash County, marking the second such death at the same farm in just over two years. Daniel de la Cruz, a ...
They’ve got more access today, as well, to legal aid and other supports and have access to modern technology to help them both prepare to cross the border before their arrival and to remain connected ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
How migrant farm workers are paid dramatically changed on Jan. 1, with an upending of federal rules by the Trump administration for those who hold H-2A visas, which allow them to work up to 10 months ...