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Reveals that the destruction of Florida's fruit farms due to Hurricanes Frances and Charley has meant lost income for fruit pickers, many of whom are illegal immigrants from Mexico.

The article focuses on rift in Willard in Ohio after Willard Area Chamber of Commerce was planning a welcome-back party for the migrants, most of whom come from Mexico and other countries.

The article reports on the sending back of migrants by the Greece government who arrived in the country from Turkey and mentions the impact of the moved in the economy of smugglers in Izmir, Turkey.

The article focuses on issues concerning the move of the U.S. government to discourage Guatemalan migrants in the country.

The article reports on protest conducted by migrant farmworkers in Italy against their working conditions after two road accidents killed 16 African laborers in 48 hours, and mentions views of Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini on the same.

The article reports on the censorship of federal judge Dana M. Sabraw for the reunification of migrant families in the U.S.

The article reports on the criminal prosecution of migrant families for illegal crossing of the borders of the U.S. under the immigration policy of President Donald Trump.

The article reports on the bodies of African migrants recovered by Spanish and Moroccan authorities off the sea of Melilla on February 3, 2018 and the search and recovery missions launched by the said governments.

The article discusses move of several countries and the call of António Guterres, the United Nations (UN) high commissioner for refugees, for the four million Syrian refugees. It mentions the call of Guterres for rich countries to accept the Syrian refugees. It discusses the would-be status of the refugees as migrants of the countries where they will be accepted.

The article reports on the escaping of several migrants from the Channel Tunnel in Calais, France. It mentions a brief statement of migrants including a 23-year-old Eritrean woman named Akbrat, Syrian man Yusuf, and Shaheen Khan from Afghanistan about their reasons behind the eagerness to escape from the Channel Tunnel to go in England. It also provides the statement of nursing student Chloé Lorieux on the death of 10 migrants.

The article reviews the exhibition "Dreaming Up North: Children on the Move Across the Americas" featuring images, words and drawings of migrant children at the El Museo del Barrio in New York on November 05, 2017.

The article reports on the fear of seasonal farmworkers in Canada on being deported under the temporary foreign worker program and mentioned the criticism on the poor supervision of the program leaving the migrants vulnerable to exploitation by their employers.

The article discusses a 2013 education initiative for farm laborers in the U.S. that trains workers to prevent the spread of bacteria such as salmonella in farm produce while harvesting crops such as strawberries. Migrant workers such as Valentin Esteban are mentioned, as well as a 2012 salmonella outbreak from cantaloupe. Food safety standards, farm produce processing, and the agricultural company Andrew & Williamson Fresh Produce are also mentioned.

The article discusses legal action taken by American workers against farms in the U.S. based on their employment of immigrant workers as of May 6, 2013, highlighting a civil suit brought against Stanley Farms in Vidalia, Georgia alleging biased employment policies favoring immigrant workers. Topics addressed include attitudes towards the efficiency of Mexican farm workers, and the employment of local workers at Southern Valley farm in Georgia.

The article discusses the would-be policy of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump on migrants and on migration.

The article reports that the Italian authorities recovered the remains of drowned migrants from a sunken fishing vessel in the Mediterranean sea.

The article focuses on the murder of high school science teacher Mehdi Hushmand in which his death was because of a conflicted relation of Germany with migrants.

The article reports that the U.S. Senate is considering limited immigration reform proposals in the aftermath of the failure of a sweeping overhaul proposed in June, 2007. The Senate approved a $3 billion appropriation for enhanced border security. Both parties are working on a temporary immigrant worker program for agriculture. Senator Dick Durbin will propose a bill granting a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who serve in the armed forces or complete two years of college.

The article focuses on the difficulties experienced by migrants from Greece, Italy, and Hungary as the European countries reached agreement on the number of refugees to accommodate.

The article reports on the arrest of smugglers in Eisenstadt, Austria who caused death of 71 migrants in September 2015.

The author ponders on the thousands of migrants who died at the sea due to the inhumane policy of the European Union (EU).

The article reports that the U.S. National Security Archive and two other advocacy groups have put Mexican government in question over the issue of the murder of migrants from Central America in Mexico by police officials.

The author discusses the abuse of migrant farm workers by employers in the U.S. and the measures introduced in the Congress to address the problem in 2013.

A leading Republican lawmaker has proposed creating a program to bring 500,000 foreign migrant farm workers to the United States each year, responding to an outcry this summer from American farmers who said shortages of legally authorized labor were imperiling their crops. The lawmaker, Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced his farm guest worker bill late on Wednesday and held a hearing on it in the House on Thursday. He is proposing a thorough overhaul of the existing guest worker program for agriculture, known as H-2A, which is shunned by most growers as too bureaucratic and costly for their fast-changing labor needs in fields and orchards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MADERA, Calif. -- Every Sunday, Juan Enriquez, a former farmworker from Mexico, shows off his culinary art, sculpturing sweet white meat from young coconuts with a knife and briskly sprinkling it with salt and lime. ''It is better than working in the fields,'' Mr. Enriquez said of his new job as a vendor at the Madera Flea Market. ''Here at least there is shade.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Being considered for: Labor secretary Would bring to the job: Experience in the Labor Department, as the former head of the Wage and Hour Division (1993 to 1997), a job in which she cracked down on garment sweatshops. She also has a reputation as an efficient administrator, having served as White House deputy chief of staff from 1998 to 2001. And she has a compelling personal story: The daughter of migrant farm workers, she picked cotton, strawberries, onions and tomatoes as a child. She currently teaches immigration law at the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law and is a partner in the a consulting and lobbying firm. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reflects the author's opinion on the state of tomato pickers of Florida. It states about Burger King Corp., a fast food chain and one of the, purchasers of Florida tomatoes, refusing the pay rise to Florida tomato pickers. The author mentions about Florida Tomato Growers Exchange, representing 90 percent of Florida's growers, and about the state of migrant farm workers in Florida.

The article comments on the U.S. government's visa program for bringing in farmworkers. It states that in the effort to purge illegal immigrants the federal government has harmed industries depending on cheap foreign labor; to minimize this problem it has started the H-24 visa program inviting guest farmworkers. It states though the government has asked for recommendations from farm groups on streamlining the program but, it should allow the industry lobbyist to dictate the change.

The reports about the reactions that the U.S. President George W. Bush's proposed bill regarding illegal immigrant workers has received. It refers to the comment of an American farmer Maureen Torrey and the criticism of the same by growers and lawmakers owing to the possibility of layoffs of farm workers during harvest season.

The article reports on the migration of a migrant family from Texas to Minnesota to weed the sugar beet fields of a farmer. Minerva Hinojosa is 22-year-old member of the family. Her father Mexican-born Eleuterio Hinojosa, along with the family, had been traveling every season. As she has graduated with a degree in English from the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg, Texas, she will teach at a high school. Her family, on the other hand, will continue to make the seasonal migration.

The article reports that supervised teams of low-risk inmates will be available as farm workers in Colorado under a program run by the Corrections Department of the state. The program has been initiated as migrant laborers left the state because of immigration restrictions. Ari Zavaras, executive director at the department, said that the merit of hard day's work outdoors was invaluable to an inmate.

Examines the plight of migrant workers in China. How more than 100 million migrant workers nationwide travel for work because they have no alternatives; Wages; Individual accounts of migrants; Issue of China's extremes of wealth and poverty; Migration of rural young people to cities and coastal regions; Comments of Chinese workers.

Focuses on the plight of migrant farm workers in Mexico. How many work long hours for low pay; Need for children to skip school and work with their parent in order to earn enough to support the family; How the problem has been ignored by Mexican President Vicente Fox despite his efforts to improve the working conditions of Mexican migrant workers in the United States; Efforts to improve conditions for the workers.

Focuses on efforts to improve housing for migrant workers in the United States. Work of nonprofit organization Design Corps and founder Bryan Bell to design houses for migrant workers who often endure substandard housing conditions; Example of houses built at Bream Farms in Pennsylvania for the migrant fruit pickers.

Profiles Norma Mabee, an 85-year old woman who volunteers at the day care center for children of migrant farm workers located in New Paltz, New York. How long Mabee has worked at the center; Other centers run by Agri-Business Child Development, the company that runs the center; Services offered; Mabee's ability to comfort the children and help them sleep.

Focuses on the Estrella program which gives the teenage children of migrant farm workers in the United States (US) laptop computers to use in taking classes on the Internet. Grant from the US Department of Education for the program; Efforts of the program to address the lack of continuity in schooling of the children; Role of NovaNET in the program; Criticisms against the program.

Editorial. Asserts that steps must be taken to force growers to take more responsibility for the general safety of migrant farm workers in the United States. Information on the accident that killed 13 farm workers in a vehicle crash in Five Points, California; Laws in California protecting farm laborers; What the state is doing to address these issues.

Reports on a Canadian government program that imports thousands of seasonal laborers a year to work at the fields and farms in Canada. Benefits and wages received by the foreign workers; Relationship between Canada and Mexico with regards to the program; Views of the Canadian Farmworkers Union on the government program.

Reports that according to a report which was released on December 11, 1997, by the Sheriff's Department in Buffalo, New York, at lease one agent from the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) fired shots at migrant workers during a raid on a cabbage farm in Genesee County in November 1997. Comments from Sheriff Gary Maha; Comments about the gunshots which were heard; Comments from Lawrence Friedman, the Genesee County District Attorney.

Reports that the wages for two million farm laborers in the United States have trailed stubbornly behind inflation for several years. Statistics on wages from the mid 1970s to the mid 1990s; Impact of migrant workers on farm laborers; Insistence of many farmers that wages are keeping up with inflation; Efforts to improve living conditions for farm workers.

Looks at primitive living conditions of migrant farm workers in the so-called black dirt country of southeastern Orange County, New York. Lack of decent showers and housing; Use of outhouses at some camps; Minimum wage for 12- or 13-hour days; Proposals by the New York State Health Department for improved conditions; View of farm workers' advocates that the revised code does not change enough.

Focuses on migrant workers at the McKay Nursery Company of Waterloo, Wisconsin. Why the company relies on seasonal field workers from Mexico; The company as evolving into an employee-owned enterprise; Figures on percentage of farm workers in each region of the United States who are migrant laborers; Crops harvested by migrant farm workers; Average hourly wages of field workers from 1993-1997; Employee stock plan at McKay.