President Donald Trump floated a form of semi-amnesty for illegal hotel, restaurant, and farm workers during a victory speech in Iowa late Thursday — but he also said a bitterly divided Congress would have to write the legislation.
A handful of House Republicans, with deep financial ties to the agriculture lobby, are joining Democrats to reintroduce an amnesty for more than two million illegal aliens working on United States farms.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a law Monday that will eliminate vote-by-mail in elections for union certification by farm workers, under a deal that will allow organizers to use a “card check” system instead.
Migrant farmworkers “are sort of enslaved” in the wealthy Californian district of Half Moon Bay, a political activist told the Washington Post.
Farm investors are pushing Congress to give them the legal authority to import their own workforce and to pay those foreign employees with shares of U.S. citizenship snatched from American voters.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is again under fire from members of his own party, this time President Joe Biden, over his hesitancy to sign a bill that would encourage California farmworkers to unionize.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is at odds with California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) over a farmworkers’ bill that he recently vetoed, publicly calling on him to support a revised version of the bill.
Agriculture investors are trying to block wage gains and to minimize technology investment by sneaking a cheap-labor, farmworker amnesty bill through the Senate.
The GOP caucus should unite against the Democrats’ unified push to amnesty illegal migrant farmworkers while President Joe Biden is creating a migration crisis on the border, says a letter to GOP legislators from the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
A CDC panel recommended persons 75 or older and frontline essential workers be the next group to get the vaccine against the coronavirus.
Agriculture department officials have announced they will not conduct a routine annual survey on wages in the farm sector, likely helping agriculture employers to suppress wages for the expected supply of 230,000 H-2A workers in 2021.
The statistics of the wildfire season in the western United States are grim: 7.4 million acres have been charred and 40 people have perished. And this year, California’s premier wine industry is also a victim.
Thirty-four Republicans voted December 11 to amnesty at least one million illegals and also to import a wave of cheap visa-workers who will lower wages throughout the farm workforce, which includes at least one million American workers.
The United Food and Commercial Workers union and several other left-wing, anti-poverty groups are opposing the Democrats’ amnesty-for-cheap-labor deal, which faces a vote in the House today.
An alliance of business groups and Democrats has drafted a deal that cuts farmworkers’ wages for many years in a swap for amnesty.
