Migrant Workers

A recent New York Times investigation found that automotive suppliers and a food packing plant in west Michigan had violated child labor laws in employing migrant children.

The three farmworkers allege they were regularly exposed to dangerous pesticides while working at a Mastronardi Produce-USA greenhouse in Coldwater.

Some of Michigan’s undocumented migrant farmworkers are travelling to the U.S. Capitol this week to advocate for a path to citizenship. That’s after a Senate official blocked immigration reforms in a budget bill.

Dr. Eric Bouwens, a physician and photographer, spent several years in Sparta, Michigan treating migrant farm workers who were harvesting in “Fruit…

More than 50 workers at a farm in Coldwater are under quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19.The outbreak happened at Maroa Farms, which has…

The further we get into growing season, the more complex life becomes for Michigan's farmers and farmworkers. They're trying to plant and harvest at a…

Lawyers for a group of migrant workers agreed to settle a lawsuit with a West Michigan blueberry farm for $200,000.More than 300 blueberry farmers claim…

The Trump administration’s policy of separating families at the border has generated criticism and condemnation.The so-called "zero tolerance" policy…

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Ten undocumented immigrants were rounded up Tuesday in what immigrant advocates say is the first major farm labor camp raid in Michigan since President…