July 1995, Volume 1, Number 3
Rural America
Day Laborers
In many California cities and towns, so-called "day laborers"
congregate on street corners or in the parking lots of builders'
stores awaiting the
Vote Fraud in Parlier
A city council candidate was convicted of voter fraud after going
door-to-door in a November 1992 race in Parlier with absentee
ballots, and
Farm Workers
UFW Wins at Washington
In Washington, former House speaker Tom Foley supervised an
election held June 2, 1995 in which two-thirds of the 96 year-round
workers at the
Farm Worker Assistance Programs
On May 18-19, 1995, a Congress on American Agricultural Labor
brought together more than 12 groups that represent and provide
services to farm
Guest Workers
As Congress considers legislation that would step up efforts to
reduce illegal immigration, western growers have launched a new
effort to begin a
Weeding California Fields
The short-handled hoe, known as el cortito, was banned in
California in 1975, the same year that the state enacted the
Agricultural Labor Relations
FBI Kept Tabs on Chavez
The FBI began collecting information on Cesar Chavez on October 8,
1965, shortly after Chavez's organization joined a grape harvesters'
strike
Farm Worker Protection
On May 25, farmers told the House Economic and Educational
Opportunities Subcommittee on Workforce Protections that the
unanimous 1990 US Supreme
Immigration
CIR Recommends Less Immigration
The nine-member U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, headed by
Barbara Jordan, recommended at a press conference June 7 that legal
immigration be
Citizen Children
There are estimated to be one million US citizen children who have
illegal alien parents, including 114,000 in Los Angeles county who
are receiving
California's 1971 Employer Sanctions Law
In the wake of Governor Wilson's admission that an illegal alien
worked in his household in the late 1970s, a review of Wilson's role
in
Other
LA Business Opportunities
A recent survey by Hispanic Business Magazine of the top 50 cities
for Latino businesses ranked Los Angeles No. 10 because of the high
cost of
US and California Population Growth
The US population was estimated to be 260 million on July 1, 1994,
up from 249 million in 1990. There are about four million births
annually, and