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The “bin” they are paid $30 for is around one ton of fruit.
Meet Maritza and Carlos. This husband wife team work in Ducor CA picking bins of citrus for $30 each bin. At the end of their day both are tired and dirty but still thankful to be able to continue to work and support their family. #WeFeedYou
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Warrantless stops and violent roving patrols by masked federal agents across California, especially the Central Valley, have been terrorizing farm workers for the past 5 days.
The chaos is escalating. 1/
ALT UFW union condemns brutal ICE surge impacting farm workers in Central Valley; highlights Rep. Valadao comments as insulting to constituents
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Farmworkers feed California. Why in the world would you exclude them from basic labor rights?
Of course farmworkers deserve overtime protections.
Two Democrats running to be California’s next governor scorned a state law that their own party, along with influential labor unions, celebrated as a major victory a decade ago.
The state’s 2016 agricultural overtime law was meant to raise wages for farmworkers, but research has shown it ended up reducing overall earnings as employers shortened the workweek to keep their production costs down.
Katie Porter, an Orange County Democrat and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, cited the law as an example of policies “that don’t make sense and that drive up costs.” Porter made the comments last week during an April 1 gubernational candidate forum at California State University, Fresno. Antonio Villaraigosa, a Democrat and former mayor of Los Angeles, agreed with Porter’s comments on the overtime law. “You’re right,” Villaraigosa said, citing research from the University of California, Berkeley, that documented the reduction in farmworker income.
Read more in Ag Alert: bit.ly/3Qqu6PY
#News #AgAlert #CAFarmBureau #AgOvertime #Governor #DemocraticParty #LaborUnion #ProductionCosts
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When immigrant rights are under attack, everyone’s rights are under attack. If it can happen to your neighbor, it can happen to you.
Cuando se atacan los derechos de los inmigrantes, se atacan los derechos de todos. Si le puede pasar a tu vecino, te puede pasar a ti.
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Your car is not your castle — it’s a constitutional gray zone. It doesn’t have the same Fourth Amendment protections as homes.
You can refuse to open the door of your home if officers don’t have a warrant; you can’t refuse to step out of your car.
projects.propublica.org/trum…
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ICYMI: An email hit the account of former federal workers asking them to come back to government work, but this time to Homeland Security to join Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
DHS this week launched its recruitment campaign, but it may not be easy.
npr.org/2025/08/01/g-s1-8063…
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Dirty Money? Behind the scenes of an anti-union "protest" featuring Wonderful Nurseries.
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It's not just the #H5N1 #birdflu cuts across the federal government, but the Trump admin's targeting of immigrants that could trigger a pandemic. They're our front-line livestock workers -- and when the birds start flying south in the fall... latimes.com/science/story/20…
I will point out there is an active injunction against warrantless sweeps in Sacramento. Eastern district UFW v Noem. Since April
ALT Judge restricts Border Patrol in California: ‘You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin’
Seeing questions about the LA federal judge order last week and what impact it has on this Sacramento immigration operation?
The answer is zero. Judge Frimpong’s order applies to the Central District of CA (7 SoCal Counties). Sacramento is in the Eastern District of CA, where there is a different federal judge’s order in effect barring immigration arrests without probable cause.
Agents tell us today’s Home Depot operation was in accordance with that order. They conducted two days of surveillance on the Home Depot, running license plates that came back to previously deported illegal immigrants, giving them a suspicion that aliens would be present there. Then, when they arrived in Border Patrol marked vests, those who immediately fled from them without a word being spoken gave them probable cause.
There are 4 district courts in California. Of the 4, one has an injunction (blue, eastern) and one has a temporary restraining order (pink, central). In both cases, ACLU is co-counsel but United Farm Workers is plaintiff.
UFW is out there doing everything possible to protect CA
ALT map of california’s four federal district courts
Did everyone forget or what? calmatters.org/justice/2025/…
it does feel good to make stephen miller THIS mad
ALT stephen miller tweet The ruling has just been issued. A communist judge in LA has ordered ICE to report directly to her and radical left NGOs — not the president. This is another act of insurrection against the United States and its sovereign people.
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I just received the criminal complaint against one of Gavidia’s friends, who was arrested.
Feds say they were conducting a “roving patrol” in Montebello when they interacted with someone in the parking lot of a tow yard. They note that the gate to the parking lot was open
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“You cannot stop people based on how they look,” said Elizabeth Strater, a national vice president of United Farm Workers, a labor union. “This ruling upholds the basic standards of law in the country.”
nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/po…
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BREAKING: United Farm Workers and Bakersfield residents sue Border Patrol for unlawful practices.
CBP’s January immigration raids terrorized communities and tore apart families. – at Bakersfield, CA
ALT A Bakersfield, CA background with a text overlay, saying: United Farm Workers and Bakersfield residents sue Border Patrol for unlawful practices.
It’s been repeated over and over since one person was quoted claiming 75% of farmworkers are stating home from work due to fear of immigration sweeps.
This is simply not true. Workers are scared, but they can’t afford to stay home. It is peak citrus harvest and they’re working.
We talked with our staff and worker leaders in citrus, tree nuts, wine grapes and other crops in Bakersfield and it simply didn’t happen. Amidst all their anxiety, these people are still going to work to provide for their families and feed this country.
snopes.com/news/2025/01/28/c…
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“At church” is crazy, yall going to hell
Multiple UFW union offices received this in the mail this week. Thanks for reaching out!
ALT postcard: Report Illegal Aliens At schools At work At church At restaurants In your neighborhood THERE IS NOWHERE TO HIDE
ALT back of a postcard, address obscured by pixels, sent from Oakland, CA sender name is “Trumps Coming”
ALT back of a postcard, address obscured by pixels, sent from Oakland, CA sender name is “Trumps Coming”
