Migration Dialogue was founded in 1994 to provide reliable and timely analysis of the immigration issues, especially farm labor and agriculture. Immigrants are almost three-fourths of US crop workers, ...

California had average precipitation during the 2023-24 water year; southern California had more than normal precipitation. The state’s dams and ...

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The H-2A and H-2B programs admit foreign guest workers to fill seasonal farm and nonfarm jobs, respectively. The H-2 program was created in 1952 by the Immigration and Nationality Act (Public Law ...

Between January 2021 and January 2024, CBP had more than six million encounters with unauthorized migrants on the Mexico-US border. Another two million migrants were detected entering the US but were ...

Census of Agriculture data released in February 2024 found that US farm sales were $543 billion in 2022, including $280 billion or 52 percent from the sale of crops and $260 billion from the sale of ...

Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), and Chris Murphy (D-CT) negotiated a $118 billion, 370-page bill in February 2024 that included provisions to reduce illegal entries over the ...

Hooker, Brandon, Philip Martin, Zachariah Rutledge, and Marc Stockton. 2024. [url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9p8710qt]California has 882,000 farmworkers to fill ...

Diary milk sales were $16 billion in 2023, while the value of plant-based milks, including almond, oat, coconut, rice, flax, hemp and soy, was $2.5 billion. Milk producers want non-dairy milks to ...

The United Farm Workers (UFW) was certified to represent the employees of Olive Hill Nursery in Fallbrook in January 2024 under AB 113 card check procedures after submitting signatures from 47 of the ...

OSHA assessed a Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Mississippi $200,000 in fines for the death of a 16-year-old Guatemalan who was pulled into a deboning machine in July 2023. Onin Staffing provided the ...

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers created the Fair Food Program in 2011 to influence wages and working conditions for farm workers who work on farms that sell to 14 tomato buyers, including Walmart, ...