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A Cornell University professor estimates 40% of Jefferson County's foreign-born farm workers are in this country illegally.
Today, migrant farm workers and their families still face challenges similar to those Guzman’s family experienced.
Canada’s ability to produce food hinges on hiring migrant agricultural workers. Yet, housing for these workers is often ...
All eight workers have family in Vermont, said Will Lambek, a spokesperson for Migrant Justice, and some of those family members continue to work at the dairy. Vermont’s farming community has ...
Guatemalan farmworkers who are accusing their former employer of violating trafficking and labor laws testified in federal ...
Migrant workers are essential for Vermont's dairy farms, filling roles like milking, animal care, and other farm chores. Fifth-generation dairy farmer Dustin Machia said Wednesday the arrests of ...
Vermont has an estimated 750 to 850 year-round migrant farmworkers, primarily on dairy farms, along with about 150 partners and children, according to the report “Vermont Dairy Delivers.” For full ...
But new federal immigration policies and ramped-up deportations have businesses across the state -- especially in rural, agricultural communities -- concerned about migrant workers showing up to rake ...
Amidst the snowy Green Mountains of Vermont, dotted with general stores and frozen ponds, a crisis is brewing in the dairy ...