Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury recently returned a 35-count indictment charging three Mexican citizens for trafficking Mexican ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cows graze in a field at a dairy farm on April 26, 2024 in Petaluma, California. The dairy farm allegedly told three Mexican ...

The H-2A program, which provides temporary visas for foreign nationals seeking seasonal agricultural jobs on U.S. farms, ...

The victims were immigrant workers with H-2A visas hired to harvest fruits, vegetables and other agricultural products, the DOJ said.

Deportations are likely to cause employers to let go of US workers, and reduce the labor force ...

Three people are facing federal charges for allegedly trafficking Mexican agricultural workers into forced labor on a farm in Northampton County, among additional farms in other states.

Nationally, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, only about 75,000 farm workers have H2-A visas, compared to an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 illegal immigrant farm workers. There are no limits ...

Danilo Lopez, the Mexican farm worker who became a cause célèbre for Vermont’s undocumented farm laborers, won a reprieve in his deportation case today. U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement ...

Migrant farm workers have long been among the poorest workers in the United States. The typical migrant is a 29-year-old Mexican-born male whose annual income is less than $7,500. He is likely to be ...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit Wednesday against United Pride Dairy, a dairy farm in Phillips, Wisconsin, alleging discrimination against three employees of Mexican ...

The H-2A program, which provides temporary visas for foreign nationals seeking seasonal agricultural jobs on U.S. farms, started nearly 40 years ago as an emergency initiative to combat a nationwide ...