#migrant labor

[republicansaretheproblem]

[antifainternational]

ICE is extremely desperate for you to work for them

The latest move? Eliminating age restrictions to become an ICE agent.

How much longer before ICE, unable to fill its gestapo jobs because no one is willing to apply for them, is forced to hire undocumented migrants?

[saywhat-politics]

TACO Trump now wants to make sure his rich Republican friends have enough migrant labor for their corporations.

[onlytiktoks]

[todaysdocument]

News from the U.S. Department of Labor, "Federal Stop-Order on Indio Farmer" (USDL-IX-59S56), San Francisco, August 3, 1959.

Record Group 174: General Records of the Department of LaborSeries: Records Relating to the Mexican Labor ("Bracero") ProgramFile Unit: Mexican Labor Program, General Correspondence

NEWS from the U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

James P. Mitchell, Secretary

CONTACT: Tor Torland, Info Officer

630 Sansome Street, San Francisco

YUkon 6-3111, Ext. 647

[handwritten] Mr Robertson

File

Mexican Program [/handwritten]

[stamp] RECEIVED

AUG 4 1959

REGIONAL ATTORNEY

SAN FRANCISCO [/stamp]

FEDERAL STOP-ORDER ON INDIO FARMER

SAN FRANCISCO, August 3: Joseph Munoz, a member of the Coachella Valley Farmers Association in Indio, has been refused further authorization to employ Mexican farm workers in a decision made public today by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Under the terms of public law 78 and the international agreement between the governments of the U.S. and Mexico, Mexican nationals may be imported to work on our farms only if it has been determined by authorities that there are not enough American workers in a specific area to fill farm-labor needs there.

Munoz was found to be using Mexican nationals to sort tomatoes in his packing shed despite repeated warnings by the U. S. Labor Department and the California Department of Employment that American workers were available for the jobs.

Glenn E. Brockway, regional director of the Labor Department's employment security bureau, issued his decision in a letter to the Coachella Valley Farmers Association. Brockway said, in part:

"All authorizations issued to the Coachella Valley Farmers Association to contract Mexican national workers are hereby revoked with respect to the employment of Mexican national workers by the said Joseph Munoz."

The federal stop-order also specified that because of Munoz's "repeated failure to give preference in employment of United States domestic workers", no authorizations would be granted him in future to use Mexican nationals.

The move came as part of the U.S. Labor Department's continuing policy of strictly policing the foreign-labor importation program so as to ensure first preference for farm jobs to American citizens.

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USDL-IX-59S56

[firstoccupier]

KCLA’s Coverage of LA ICE Protests: Trivializing a Crisis and Missing the Point

The recent ICE raids in Los Angeles, which sparked widespread protests and the arrest of SEIU California President David Huerta, have exposed not only the harsh realities of Trump’s immigration policies but also the troubling disconnect in how some media outlets cover these events. While outlets like KTLA, MSNBC, and even Fox News managed to convey the gravity of the situation, KCLA’s reporting…

KCLA’s Coverage of LA ICE Protests: Trivializing a Crisis and Missing the Point

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[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

August 23rd, 1970 the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins. It is organized by Mexican-American labor union leader César Chávez.