Don't Let Migrant Kids Rot- NY Times
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migrantlegalaid.com
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Deadline November 6, 2018
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Proposed new regulations would allow the government to detain migrant children indefinitely. To oppose the new rules, make your voice heard through public comment through this
Federal Register Link. It's easy, you can click on the comment button and start typing. You have until November 6, 2018. Read the full article
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We won! Help us Return Wages To Blue Star Farms'
Workers
by Friday, September 14, 2018
We've logged a lot of miles. Thanks to our outreach team, and our migrant advocate friends in other states, we've been spreading the word among workers in Fennville, South Haven, and throughout Allegan County, Michigan, and in Florida, and Texas. We've reached workers through PSA's on Spanish radio stations, articles and advertisements in Spanish newspapers, with posters at churches, stores, laundry mats, and restaurants, and by personal phone calls, emails, texts, faxes, and door-to-door visits to last known addresses of workers. There's more workers eligible to receive payment, you can help us find them in the home stretch
as we work to distribute a $200,000 settlement, detailed in the Aviso link below. If someone worked in 2011, 2012 or 2013 for BlueStar Farms in Fennville, MI, Allegan County, they should contact us to submit their claim by this Friday
Sept. 14, 2018
. The funds derive from a class action settlement where workers alleged inaccurate pay records and wages. The settlement distribution will follow the settlement agreement. See
Aviso
for the Notice to workers in Spanish. Call 1-800-418-3390, or text (616) 303-1529.
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Feds Extract Penalties in
Crashes
that Killed 5 Migrant Workers
The deadly March 2017 crash involved a van that, authorities said, overturned when one of its tires blew out while en route to Fisher Ranch's fields. The federal complaint alleged that Fisher failed to verify that the labor contractor, Healthy Harvesting, was insured and authorized to transport workers. Drawing on details from a California Highway Patrol crash report, the complaint said two of the van's tires were bald, two wheels were missing lug nuts, and the vehicle was missing a seatbelt. Labor Department lawyers added that the driver did not have a commercial license and his personal license was suspended. Read more
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When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
When today's growers lament that Americans won't pick the crops, it hearkens back to an old experiment resurrected on NPR by Gustavo Arrellano. 200 teenagers from New Mexico, Kansas and Wyoming quit after just two weeks on the job. "We worked three days and all of us are broke," the Associated Press quoted o
ne teen as saying. Students elsewhere staged strikes. At the end, the [student] A-TEAM was considered a giant failure and was never tried again ...
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