migrant workers

While President Donald Trump was celebrating his self-proclaimed “Made in America” week, his Homeland Security secretary was adding another 15,000 visas for seasonal foreign workers to come to the United States to ease a crushing labor shortage. The U.S. makes available 66,000 annual...

Farmers are poaching each other’s migrant workers, rushing to develop robot field hands and abandoning some crops altogether because of a shortage of seasonal workers that poses yet another predicament for President Donald Trump. “There’s going to be a collision of interests and...

For Sonny Mendoza, a Mexican-American raised by migrant workers, recent discourse on border control is lacking perspective. And it’s not necessarily the perspective most would expect. Life experience has led Mendoza to espouse a stance on immigration that aligns more with political...