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  • She says the county also operates three farm-worker centers and a housing trust fund that has contributed millions of dollars to producing affordable housing over the past 20 years.

    Suit Stirs Napa County Housing Fight Bobby White 2011

  • Yes, she came here illegally -- as an infant, on her farm-worker father's back 47 years ago.

    Jim Wallis: Glenn Beck, Immigration, and Social Justice 2010

  • Yes, she came here illegally -- as an infant, on her farm-worker father's back 47 years ago.

    Jim Wallis: Glenn Beck, Immigration, and Social Justice 2010

  • Democratic lawmakers and farm-worker organizations argued that the Bush rule led to lower wages for U.S. and immigrant farm employees and didn't protect American laborers.

    Rule Easing Farm Hiring Is Suspended 2009

  • Her father was the last migrant farm-worker of the family, and every summer he would take his children to the fields to show them where they came from.

    Latina Power! Dr. Ana Nogales with Laura Golden Bellotti 2008

  • The revised regulations, many months in the works, would make it easier for growers to bring foreign workers to the United States and could alleviate the critical farm-worker shortage largely caused by the U.S. crackdown on illegal border crossings.

    After Super Tuesday, 2008

  • But some farm-worker advocates -- as well as some critics of U.S. immigration policy -- say illegal workers are simply cheaper to employ.

    Farm-Worker Plan Aims 2008

  • It glitters its gold and a life of pleasure before the dazzled eyes of the farm-worker to lure him from his land to the city where he may squander his hard-won savings.

    The Pope Speaks on Rural Life 2007

  • Our industry, as well as farm-worker advocates -- Democrats and Republicans alike -- support legislation known as AgJOBS.

    Food for Thought Tom Nassif 2007

  • The priest and his farm-worker parishioners remind him of his mother, who left when he was seven.

    HH Com 642 Miss Snark 2006

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