'Essential' Status Means Jobs For Farmworkers, But Greater Virus Risk
Farmworkers are still working during the coronavirus epidemic. They're essential. But they're also at greater risk of infection.
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Smoke And Power Outages Near California Wildfires Hit Farmworkers Hard
October marks not only fire season in California, but also the peak of the grape harvest. In areas not imminently threatened, some workers labor through heat and smoke to save harvests and paychecks.
In Garlic Capital, Tariffs And Immigration Crackdown Have Mixed Impacts
Gilroy, Calif., is known as the garlic capital of the world. Two Trump administration policies — one on trade, the other on immigration — are affecting the town in starkly different ways.
After The Wildfires: Artist Captures Plight Of Napa's Undocumented Workers
Napa Valley's wine industry relies heavily on immigrants, but the undocumented are often ineligible for services when disaster strikes. An artist depicts how the 2017 fires impacted this community.
When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.
Farmworkers In California Fearful After Immigrant Couple Dies While Fleeing ICE
In March, two undocumented farmworkers died in a car crash after speeding away from ICE agents. But ICE had the wrong people. The accident has immigrant farmworkers and their employers on edge.
Health Risks To Farmworkers Increase As Workforce Ages
As the number of immigrants available for farm work has dwindled in California, many who are left are older, and suffer from health problems related to decades of difficult labor.
Suit Seeks To Stop New Limits Around Farm Operations
North Carolina's only farmworker union is challenging a law limiting organized labor's activities in and around the state's vegetable and tobacco fields and other agricultural operations.
California Wildfires Leave Seasonal Agricultural Workers In Limbo
The devastating wildfires in Northern California and killed scores of people and left thousands homeless. They've also left many seasonal agricultural workers without jobs or income.
'They're Scared': Immigration Fears Exacerbate Migrant Farmworker Shortage
Some growers say that President Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric has made a chronic worker shortage even worse.