Migrant Farm Workers in the United States
Migrant farm workers are once again being demonized and forced to live in the shadows. President Trump’s devotion to ICE raids (and funding) has led to deportations, separation and death.
From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the Bracero Program begun during World War II, the United States has a dark history of racism and anti-immigrant sentiment masked as “policy.”
In the waning days of the Bracero Program, faced with horrible conditions and repression, Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta rose up to create the United Farm Workers.
Recently, another Huerta — David Huerta, head of SEIU California — was arrested by federal agents and held for three nights for peacefully protesting an ICE raid on a garment warehouse.