Undocumented farmworkers could qualify to apply for green cards immediately under the immigration legislation that President Joe Biden unveiled on his first day in office.
Farmworkers would be eligible to apply for permanent legal residency if they have worked in agriculture for at least 100 days during four of the previous five years. They would be required to pass a criminal background check.
People who came to the country without authorization as children and currently have deportation protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, as well as those who gained Temporary Protected Status due to extraordinary and temporary conditions, such as civil war or an environmental disaster in their home country, also would be eligible for green cards immediately.
While the broadcast networks were busy stoking fears that members of the National Guard stationed in Washington, D.C. might launch an inside attack on the inauguration, they turned a blind eye to a caravan of Honduran migrants that violently stormed into Guatemala, fighting with local police.
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Voters exit Avenal High School in Kings County on November 3, 2020. Photo by Clara Mokri for CalMatters
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Despite election reforms designed to improve turnout in 2020, the gap between white and diverse voters remained significant.
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Raymiro Gomez-Galiano knocked on more than a thousand doors in Santa Clarita for the March primary, urging Latinos and other infrequent voters to turn out.
Just 17, the teen couldn’t even vote yet.
“I made sure to send people out there to vote on my behalf. That’s something that we all have the power to do,” said the teen, a volunteer with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights based in Los Angeles.
Will Californiaâs Julie Su Be Bidenâs Labor Secretary?
If he appoints her, sheâd be the 21st-century Frances Perkins.
California Labor Secretary Julie Su in April 2019
President-elect Joe Biden campaigned on the most ambitious pro-union platform since Franklin Roosevelt. Labor activists hope that heâll also pick the most pro-worker secretary of labor since FDR selected Frances Perkins for the job.
The one leading candidate who best fits that description is California Labor Secretary Julie Su, whose candidacy is being avidly promoted by the stateâs labor and immigrant rights activists. Like Perkins, Su became an acclaimed public figure as an advocate for immigrant sweatshop workers and has spent her career fighting for workersâ rights and a fair economy. And like Perkins, Su has been witness to an almost unfathomable outrage inflicted on workers.