A New Bill Would Protect Immigrant Farmworkers. It Has Little Chance Of Survival.

For many months now, farmworkers’ anxieties have been growing. Following President Donald Trump’s promise last fall to imprison or deport or some 3 million undocumented immigrants from this country, many of the nation’s farmworkers — an estimated half of whom are undocumented —fear that this enforcement pushwill target themand their families. Some of those farmworkers may have left, while others have inched further into the shadows. Arturo Rodriguez, president of United Farm Workers, a...