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Migrant Labor and US Agriculture

Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version.  The Second in a three-part series.An NPG Forum Paperby Dr. Philip MartinApril 2024 The US Department of Labor has a National Agricultural Worker Survey (NAWS) that interviews 1,500 to 3,000 workers employed on US crop farms each year and is the best-known source of farm  worker data.1 The NAWS finds that 70 …

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Immigration Reduction: Xenophobia and Racism? Or, Common Sense and Pragmatism in a Crowded Nation?

Just ask media and other open-border advocates – although that says a lot about the bias (or agenda) of today’s media – according to them, we have always been a nation that welcomed all immigrants. When that was not the case, from their view, the only possible reasons were racism, sexism, xenophobia and, most particularly, the smug superiority of wealthy white males forging exclusionary policies.

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