The fiesta’s over for Mexico’s agave farmers
As a boy, Antonio visited his father’s dairy farm several times a week and helped feed the cows and sow corn. His family, mostly farmers from small towns in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, were ...
Construction site catches fire in South Korea, leaving at least 4 dead
A fire broke out at a resort construction site in the South Korean city of Busan Friday, killing at least four people, fire officials said. About 100 workers managed to evacuate from the site and ...
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How Trump's immigration crackdown is affecting farming communities across California
ABC's Kayna Whitworth spoke with dairy farmers in Tulare County and a farmworkers rights group in Kern County to hear their thoughts on the immigration crackdown and how it is impacting their ...
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Mother, farm worker prepares to self-deport to Mexico after nearly two decades in the US
President Donald Trump’s executive order of mass deportations is causing fear among several people without immigration status.
‘We’ll have to go vegan’: Dairy farmers rattled about finding workers amid Trump deportation sweeps
If all undocumented dairy farm migrant workers were deported tomorrow, the industry ‘would die a horrible death,’ farmers ...
Trick clock: On the job with a seasonal migrant worker
Near a row of plastic domes, a group of other migrant workers was setting the stage for replanting. A pickup truck emerged ...
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Futures File: Natural gas deflates as temps rise
Warmer than normal temps in the southeastern portion of the U.S. could have contributed to the decline. The Energy Information Administration inventory report, released on Thursday, indicated the ...
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New York farmworkers fear deportation amid escalating ICE raids
Reverend Richard Witt is the Executive Director of Rural & Migrant Ministry, an organization advocating for farmworkers and rural workers in New York. He told Tim Bruno at Radio Catskill that ...
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Immigration officers detain workers at Mexican restaurant in O’Fallon, Mo., workers say
O’FALLON, Mo. — A Mexican restaurant here reopened Friday after three employees were taken away by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers Thursday morning, workers said. Uber Ramos ...
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EPA workers receive emails warning their employment could be terminated
The EPA emails come after the Office of Personnel Management sent a mass email to federal workers Tuesday night telling them if they resign now, they would be paid through September 30 even though ...