The first Latina and first immigrant woman to become president of a national union in the United States, in 2018 Teresa Romero became only the third president of the United Farm Workers since Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta founded the union in 1962. She will address the progress achieved by the United Farm Workers Union, and the important work that remains to be done to improve their work and living conditions. Almost 40 years after Cesar Chavez’s renowned 1984 Commonwealth Club speech, his successor as president of the United Farmworkers Union, Teresa Romero, joins us to discuss the hardships and exploitation agricultural laborers face. The January mass shooting in Half Moon Bay brought to light the intolerable conditions in which farmworkers often still live and work. My office is in the process of drafting an immigration bill that will have a number of things,” said Feinstein.United Farmworkers Union President Teresa Romero joins us to discuss the hardships and exploitation agricultural laborers face. “What we want to do is make one last stand. It would enable the worker to continue to work in agriculture for five years at which point the worker would receive a green card and be put on the path to citizenship. Called the Blue Card Bill, it says that if a farmworker has worked in an ag field for two years, with no arrests, that individual would qualify for a blue card. The first would be reintroducing a portion of the last farm bill that had bipartisan support.

On immigration reform, farmworkers and other agriculture-related issues, Feinstein said she is working on drafting an immigration bill that essentially has three parts. He should be bringing people together, not separating them.” “At (Trump’s) rallies they’re still chanting, ‘Lock her up.’ … Why?” said Feinstein. Feinstein said she was disturbed by some of the images found on the van of the suspected bomb mailer, who was taken into custody earlier in the day, namely an image of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in crosshairs.

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