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DOL certified 20,000 applications to fill 317,000 jobs with H-2A workers in the first three quarters of FY25, up from 19,000 applications to fill 310,000 jobs in the same period of FY24. During the ...

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In February 2024, the UFW was certified on the basis of a card check petition to represent 640 employees at 1,400-acre Wonderful nurseries in Wasco. Wonderful contested the legality of card check and ...

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A federal judge in August 2025 ordered detainees removed from the Florida state detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz because neither the federal nor state government had done sufficient ...

The Americas Immigration reform in summer 2014 took a back seat to debate over what to do about women and children arriving on the Mexico-US border from Central The number of border-area deaths fell ...

The authors would like to express their appreciation to Laureen Laglagaron for her expert assistance. An earlier version of this paper was presented in June 2000 at a Miami meeting of the National ...