CEDAR — Every year for the past 10 years, Jose Abel has traveled more than 2,000 miles from the region of Durango in Mexico to northwest Michigan to tend to the grapes at the region's famed vineyards.

Since our organization, the Family Farm Defenders (FFD), began in the early 1990s, we knew that the fate of food and farm systems around the world are inexorably linked to one another. We witnessed ...

When President Trump campaigned for his second term on the promise of deporting millions of undocumented workers from the United States, farm groups were quick to voice their discontent. An ...

The Trump administration's tough stance on immigration is creating uncertainty for America's farmers. Many farms rely on foreign-born labor to pick crops, tend to livestock and handle other work. The ...

The nation’s 2.6 million-plus farm workers – an estimated 1 million of them foreign-born– are a natural target of Donald Trump’s ever-escalating mass deportation campaign. About 45% of the total ...

Louisiana sugarcane farmers acknowledge they depend greatly on migrant workers from Mexico to plant and harvest their crops. (Photo by Olivia Perillo/The Current) In the late summer heat, the hours ...