On the Latino side, he created the first state board to look after the interests of migrant farm workers.
Texans Ruben , Daniel and David Perez , the sons of migrant farm workers, worked in the fields as children.
Harsh immigration laws that discourage migrant farm workers have led to millions of dollars of crops rotting on the vine.
Near the end of his broadcasting career, Murrow's documentary "Harvest of Shame" was a powerful statement on conditions endured by migrant farm workers.
Another partner, Radio Bilingue, is educating migrant farm workers in California Central Valley about the utility of broadband and supplying pragmatic information on how to get connected.
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While some have criticized the House for turning a witness chair over to Stephen Colbert, in reality, the comedy show host and satirist used his testimony to explain well the issue of illegal immigration and migrant farm workers.
Inspired by the Depression-era Farm Security Administration photography project, its photographers shot everything from small Midwestern towns, barrios in the Southwest and coal-mining communities in Appalachia to African-Americans in Chicago, urban renewal in Kansas City and migrant farm workers in Colorado.
Intriguingly, the voucher debate has pitched civil-rights-era black leaders and teachers' unions, who oppose the idea, against supporters ranging from the conservative governor of Florida, Jeb Bush, to the leftist head of the Milwaukee school board, John Gardner, a labour organiser who once led a campaign to support Cesar Chavez, the founder of the migrant farm-workers' union.
In 1996, the Labor Department accused DeCoster of maintaining "sweatshop conditions" for migrant workers at its Turner, Maine, chicken farm, where then-Labor Secretary Robert Reich said workers risked salmonella by handling dead chickens and manure with their bare hands.
About 30 migrant workers have been injured in a shooting on a strawberry farm in Greece after requesting salaries that had not been paid.
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