The debate over immigration amnesty could soon return to the Senate floor. According to press reports, Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) plans to attach the proposed Agricultural Job Opportunities, ...

WASHINGTON — Western growers and union activists are scrambling for a fix after the comprehensive immigration bill on which they'd pinned their hopes collapsed Thursday. Facing long odds, some ...

BOSTON -- If you're concerned that unauthorized immigrants are taking work from Americans, here is a union offer on behalf of immigrant farmworkers: "Take our jobs. Please!" The United Farm Workers of ...

Nowhere is there a greater need for immigration reform than in agriculture. It is estimated that 1.5 million laborers — or 60 percent of the nation’s 2.5 million farm workers — are undocumented. These ...

WASHINGTON — Farmers, immigrants and their Capitol Hill allies are hoping to graft an agricultural guest-worker plan onto the multibillion-dollar farm bill. California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein ...

In the workplace world of immigrant labor, high-profile raids are out, for now. I-9 audits are in. Employers, rather than employees, are the primary worksite targets of U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

A coalition of groups representing farm workers and employers says those it represents have the best opportunity in years to win congressional approval of legislation overhauling immigration rules for ...

© Copyright Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. Washington, Sept. 24 – Mixing satire with serious concern about two million, often illegal, migrant farm workers, TV ...

A particularly bizarre moment in the immigration debate came and went almost unnoticed. At the same House subcommittee hearing at which Stephen Colbert testified, Rep. Steve King (R- Iowa), who ...

Since the health care overhaul was passed in March, ag and labor interests have been pushing Congress to take up some form of immigration reform in the current session. But all sides tend to agree ...