Farmer Workers News Today

Josetta Edwards Wilkins, the wife of a state legislator who went on to serve Pine Bluff for four terms of her own in the Arkansas House of Representatives in the 1990s, died Friday.

Amid extreme heat, there are few federal protections for workers during hot temperatures. The Biden administration wants to change that but the rule making process is long and the heat won't wait.

The blazing heat, which lead to the deaths of farmworkers, led the Biden administration to move forward on creating heat protections.

>> the only way to discourage illegal immigration is to change our laws. >> just open our borders. >> let me give you an example. >> how many more do we need? 2 million? 3 million? >> the marketplace will tell us. hold on, we need 1 million farmers. we need 1 million farm workers in the country. oh, stop it, we need 1 million farm workers in the country. let them in legally. [ all talking at once ] >> you dont understand how the economy works. >> i think the audience can hear you better if you s...