My friend Morgan Smith wrote this note about the Rio Grande in July 2024. Learn more about Morgan here , here and here .
J.A.M. v. USA "The Court holds that Oscar is entitled to a much lower, but still notable award of $175,000 because he was somewhat older at the time of the incident, was detained for about half...
Path2Papers, July 17, 2024 " What are the policy changes the Biden administration is implementing regarding temporary work visas? On June 18, 2024, the Biden administration announced a policy...
DOJ, July 18, 2024 "The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Southwest Key Programs Inc. (Southwest Key), a Texas-based nonprofit that provides housing to unaccompanied children who are...
Jeanne Kuang, CalMatters, July 18, 2024 "Even with all the industries where Californians went on strike during last year’s “hot labor summer,” some of the most active sites of...
Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, July 28, 2017 -
"Many grape growers consider H2A’s bureaucratic hurdles insurmountable: Those include costly fees, piles of paperwork and the requirement to provide government-inspected housing to workers. It’s a burden that many smaller-scale vintners insist they simply cannot bear. But as labor grows ever scarcer, will they have a choice? For vineyard workers, the H2A visa represents safe passage from Mexico, legal work status, a good wage and guaranteed housing. Wine Country’s resident workforce no longer wants to do vineyard work, and the flow of undocumented workers coming from Mexico is quickly drying out. For many would-be vineyard hands — and for many of their employers — H2A may soon be the only viable option. “Without H2A,” Seghesio said, “we couldn’t make this kind of wine.”"