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Sexual-Harassment Epidemic on U.S. Farms
| #MeTooInTheFields. There's a Sexual-Harassment Epidemic on America's Farms. Farmworker women face pervasive sexual harassment and assault on the job. Marlyn Perez had no choice but to take the job at C&C Agricultural Farms in Clewiston, FL. She was new to farming, new to America, undocumented, and desperately in need of money....Read NYT article here |
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MLA Helps Legalize Trafficking Victim,
Family in Honduras Too
Human Trafficking Exposed Yes, it happens here in Michigan to our farmworkers. MLA has helped many victims escape their captors and become legal. Even their family members living abroad, who are eligible, can be helped, as in the case of the father we are representing to bring his daughter and wife to the US.
Migrant Legal Aid's law clerk, Molly Spaak, has helped our attorneys with the father's case, and in overcoming the obstacle of proving his paternity using Honduran-approved DNA swab kits. Michigan's human trafficking problem is hidden, but real. Who can we help next?
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Migrant Worker Access to Driver's License / ID
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Rep. Dave Pagel
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Teresa Hendricks MLA
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Sheriff Paul Bailey
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March 21,
LWV Berrien and Cass Counties
will host a public forum and discussion on the issue of allowing seasonal and agricultural workers to apply for or secure and renew a driver's license or obtain an identification card regardless of immigration status. Details
here.
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Stolen Wages, Happy Ending:
MLA Gets Migrant Workers Paid in Full by
Bankrupt Employer
March 5, 2018, Despite the odds, MLA's attorney Ben O'Hearn was able to take advantage of legal priorities for unpaid wages when the employer files for bankruptcy, and quickly filed claims for the workers, as creditors. As a result, thousands of dollars earned by the workers were recovered, and their checks arrived safely in the mail this week.
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Is It Time for Truth and Reconciliation
in Post-Ferguson America?
MSU Law Symposium, March 15-16, will explore the history of racial injustice, the quest for social justice, and justice for indigenous peoples. As indigenous farm workers are increasingly coming to Michigan from Guatemala and Mexico, the conversation is even more relevant. Most labor laws of the Jim Crow era were written to exclude low-wage, mostly black workers. Today, the exclusion is vastly affecting low-wage Hispanic workers. Has Brown become the new Black?
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