Author Archives: Jose Calderon

About Jose Calderon

Jose Zapata Calderon is Emeritus Professor in Sociology and Chicano/a Latino/a Studies at Pitzer College and President of the Latino and Latina Roundtable of the Pomona Valley and San Gabriel Valley.

Support UFW Lawsuit Against New Bracero Program

With the anti-immigrant policies of the Trump administration now affecting worker shortages and crop failures in agriculture – the Labor Department is bringing back a “revamped” H-2A program which has aspects of the unjust Bracero program (which was terminated in 1964 because of its exploitation of Mexican workers) – in lowering hourly rates by between $1 and $7 – and includes cost of housing workers as part of that compensation. Continue reading