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In June, as the Trump administration faced backlash from farmers and agriculture officials over its mass deportation effort stripping farms of employees, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer presented a solution: the new Office of Immigration Policy. The office would slash red tape, including easing the process for farmers to access workers on temporary labor visas. Instead […]

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Emails show Trump’s labor department struggling to deliver on H-2A ‘one-stop shop’ promise

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Mar-Jac Poultry, Chick-fil-A’s chicken provider, fined for child labor

H-2A visas for white South African workers have surged 1,300% since 2011

Senator demands Tyson child labor probe. Trump’s cuts to DOL could make that difficult.

GRAPHIC: Tyson Foods under investigation for employing minors amid surge in US child labor violations

The US labor department added new farmworker protections, but agency needs more resources ‘to do what we need to do,’ agency head says

Dead smoke alarms, moldy rooms, empty first aid kits: Farmworkers endure unsafe and substandard housing across US

GRAPHIC: Chicken prices continue to rise, costing U.S. consumers more each year

Farms need to recruit US residents before hiring foreign farmworkers. Some skip that step, lawsuits allege.

El sistema público de protección de los trabajadores agrícolas se ve afectado por la rotación de personal y la falta de un programa de apoyo

With Iran War, food prices will grow faster than originally expected this year, USDA predicts

China looms large in Oklahoma governor’s race over foreign ownership of farmland

Burned before by ‘pesticide drift,’ vineyard owners enter growing season bracing for the worst

A new immigration strategy shakes agro-industrial rural towns

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