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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and others testified on immigrant farmworkers before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Lawmakers questioned Secretary Vilsack about the Farm Workforce M…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL); CEOs; a university president; religious leaders; unauthorized immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, al…

Dolores Huerta delivered remarks on the history of the farm workers movement. Following her remarks, panelists talked about the movement’s legacy and activist Cesar Chavez.

Witnesses testified on the current guest worker program in the U.S. agriculture industry and Representative Bob Goodlatte’s bill, the Agricultural Guestworker Act. Among the issues they disc…

Agriculture and labor interest representatives testified at the second in a series of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on immigration reform.*Topics included worker visas, border security…

Witnesses spoke about the American agricultural sector’s reliance on foreign, and often undocumented, workers to pick fruit and vegetables on America’s farms. Comedy Central’s Stephen Colber…

At a Congressional Hispanic Caucus public policy conference, participants talked about minority and labor issues. Among the topics they addressed were immigration, union organizing in the se…

Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman and others talked about the future of U.S. farming and the 1995 Farm Bill. The Congressional budget resolution recommended that $13.4 billion be cut from …

Participants discussed the life and times of Cesar Chavez, the leader of farm worker unions in the Southwest and throughout the country until his death earlier this year.