Legal immigration was 1.1 million a year under Biden, 1.1 million foreign students were in the US in 2023-24, and almost 3.5 ...

Background of the Health Problem and Reason for the Study Nature of Health Problem For many years agriculture has been regarded as one of the nation’s most hazardous industries. A review of the ...

Contact us at plmartin@ucdavis.edu. Past projects include: Farm Labor and Mexican Produce Exports, the Changing Face of Rural America, Research & Seminars, and the Sloan West Coast Program on Science ...

Different from immigrant inflows into central and northern Europe in the 50s and 60s, farming is nowadays a key immigrant sector in Europe. Over-representation of non-European workers in farming can ...

Los Angeles county, the most populous in the US with 10 million residents, was ravaged by wildfires in January 2025. Pacific Palisades, Altadena and other cities were in the path of a ring of fires ...

Trump advisors drew up plans to deport unauthorized foreigners in the US and to reduce legal immigration, which averages 1.1 million a year. Some of these policies were tried and blocked by courts ...

Post-1965 immigration has changed the rural midwest in both subtle and dramatic ways. Since 1980, the local expansion of meatpacking has reinvigorated southwest Kansas communities, attracting ...

The US has nine million dairy cows, two-thirds on farms with 1,000 or more cows and 1.7 million or 20 percent in California. Bird flu was found in 645 of the state?s herds, many in the leading dairy ...

About half of the fresh fruit and a quarter of the fresh vegetables consumed in the US are imported. Half of fresh fruit imports and three-fourths of fresh vegetable imports are from Mexico. Mexico's ...

Rural Migration News summarizes and analyzes the most important migration-related issues affecting immigrant farm workers in California and the United States during the preceding quarter. Topics are ...

Trump 2.0 could freeze or eliminate the AEWR, a special minimum wage higher than federal or state minimum wages and must be paid to H-2As, open year-round farm jobs to H-2As, and allow farmers to ...