The Border Patrol — a unit of U.S. Customs and Border Protection — had not been seen operating in anyone's memory in Bakersfield, some 300 miles from the patrol's California offices in El ...

director of legal services for the UFW Foundation, told me. The officers raid locations where they knew they would find farmworkers gathering — such as at a Home Depot, where immigrant laborers come ...

The article featured a quote by Casey Creamer, president of a farming industry group called California Citrus ... fugitive aliens." United Farm Workers (UFW), a labor union for farm workers ...

Border Patrol activity did lead many farmworkers to stay home It is true that many farmworkers in California’s Central Valley did stay home while Border Patrol was in the area, the UFW ...

“The laws on the books are not the laws on the field,” said Roman Pinal, a United Farm Workers organizer. He helped distribute masks to farmworkers in Oxnard, California, during the Hughes Fir ...