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.

We need to support a lawsuit by the UFW opposing this rule and continue to organize for the legalization of our immigrant workers and continue to fight for dignified wages and benefits for all farmworkers who contribute billions to the economy.