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WND Exclusive CONTROLLING THE SUBSTANCES Big money in Mexican meth New laws cut down on U.S. labs, but drugs still flow Posted: August 19, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com While new state and federal laws are cutting down the number of U.S. meth labs, the deadly drugs continue to flow into the U.S. across the porous border with Mexico, say law enforcement authorities. The federal anti-meth law was recently amended to permit states to impose their own stiffer restrictions and penalties. In Oregon, for instance, legislators now require cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine, a principal ingredient in methamphetamine, to...

If Cesar Chavez were still alive, he would have wanted this day named in his honor to be more than a celebration, according to his friend, Father Patricio Guillen of Ontario. "Everyone can celebrate, but we need to do more than celebrate," said Guillen, executive director of the San Bernardino-based immigrant service organization Libreria del Pueblo. "We need to continue to struggle, promote and defend the rights of farmworkers today, especially since many of them today are undocumented and they have greater problems as far as being able to organize." While Chavez is being commemorated today - his birthday -...

GREENFIELD, Calif. (AP) - One hundred farm workers are beginning the second day of a five-day march up the Salinas Valley, stopping in small farming towns like Greenfield, to protest immigration raids in Southern California and the intimidation they said affects immigrant workers all over the state. The workers are also trying to build support for a bill which would allow undocumented field laborers to earn work permits after years of farm work, organizers said. The federal AgJobs bill is also backed by the agriculture industry. The United Farm Workers are leading the march, which started in King City on...

Evangelina Bahena, second from left, her daughter Gabriela, 13, third from left, her son Xavier, 9, second from right, and other members of her husband Alfredo Bahena’s family, listen as Gov. Jeb Bush, left, thanks them for making the trip to Immokalee from their home in Pierson to participate in the signing of a bill improving conditions for Florida’s farmworkers. The new law will now be known as the Alfredo Bahena Act in honor of Evangelina’s husband, a Farmworkers Association of Florida member who was killed in April when his van was hit by a train. Gov. Jeb Bush comforts...

Statement from Kerry on Cesar Chavez Day 3/29/2004 12:20:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Laura Capps of John Kerry for President, 202-712-3000; Web: http://www.johnkerry.com SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today, John Kerry visited the 4th Annual Cesar Chavez Youth Forum in Sacramento to talk with a group of children working on a service project commemorating Cesar Chavez Day. Kerry met with children and read an excerpt from Kathleen Krull's "Harvesting Hope," a children's book that details the story of Cesar Chavez's 340-mile march to protest the working conditions of migrant farm workers in California. The holiday...

<p>WASHINGTON - House and Senate lawmakers rallied yesterday behind legislation that would legalize as many as 500,000 illegal immigrants employed as farmworkers, but the Bush administration has yet to endorse the measure.</p> <p>Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., the bill's chief sponsors, are urgently working to get the measure onto the Senate floor before the end of the year. They are trying for support from at least 60 senators. So far, the bill has attracted 54 sponsors from both parties.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON - House and Senate lawmakers rallied yesterday behind legislation that would legalize as many as 500,000 illegal immigrants employed as farmworkers, but the Bush administration has yet to endorse the measure.</p> <p>Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., the bill's chief sponsors, are urgently working to get the measure onto the Senate floor before the end of the year. They are trying for support from at least 60 senators. So far, the bill has attracted 54 sponsors from both parties.</p>

The U.S. Justice Department has begun to investigate a new case of slavery in Florida involving a group of undocumented Mexican farmworkers who say they were forcibly detained and threatened with violence by labor contractors.The facts of the case were first made public in an article in The Palm Beach Post Dec. 7, part of the newspaper's recent series, Modern-Day Slavery. In that article, a 28-year-old Mexican man said that on more than one occasion in late 2002, he and other migrant tomato pickers were locked inside a trailer in the town of Wimauma, in Hillsborough County, by a family...

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE Published: October 13, 2003 Eighteen-year-old Yuliana Huicochea moved to the United States at age 4, but now faces deportation because immigration officials stopped her on a school trip to a science fair. Ms. Huicochea's troubles began last year when she and other members of her high school science team traveled from Phoenix to Buffalo to enter their 15-foot solar-powered boat in the fair and decided to take a side trip to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. Immigration officials stopped Ms. Huicochea and three teammates and told them they faced deportation because they were illegal immigrants. "I'm...

<p>It is rare, almost unheard of in fact, for both the United Farm Workers Union and the California Farm Bureau to support the same major piece of immigration and labor legislation. But a new bipartisan bill in Congress has won the backing of the two longtime political foes. It offers an imperfect but pragmatic and politically practicable way to deal with one of the most difficult issues facing the country: the crush of illegal immigrants working in agriculture.</p>

Help Defeat Illegal Alien Farm Worker Amnesty Legislation -- Take Action Now! Urge Your Elected Officials to Oppose S.1645 and H.R. 3142 On September 23, Senators Larry Craig (R-ID) and Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Representatives Chris Cannon (R-UT) and Howard Berman (D-CA) introduced companion farm worker amnesty bills, S.1645 and H.R. 3142. "The Agricultural Job, Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act of 2003" (AgJOBS bill) provides a "one-time" amnesty for illegal aliens engaged in farm work and their spouses and children. The bill also expands the H-2A agricultural guestworker program. A broad coalition consisting of labor unions, agribusiness, the hospitality industry,...

WASHINGTON – A classic story of immigration politics is unfolding on Capitol Hill, where conservatives are banding with liberals to promote controversial legislation. A group of conservative legislators, pushed by its labor-hungry farming and landscaping allies, has joined forces with liberals, urged on by their immigrant-advocate friends, to put an estimated 500,000 undocumented farm workers on a path toward legal residency.

<p>Gov. Gray Davis appointed longtime labor and civil rights leader Dolores Huerta to the UC Board of Regents on Tuesday.</p> <p>Huerta, who with Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union, is synonymous with the labor movement, and her appointment caps an activist career that began 48 years ago, fighting segregation and getting out the vote in Stockton.</p>

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The Mexican government will investigate the treatment of farmworkers who are part of a federal "guest worker" program in North Carolina. The review is the result of petitions filed with the Mexican government by two advocacy groups early this year -- Farmworker Justice Fund in Washington and the Central Independiente de Obreros Agrcolas y Campesinos in Mexico. They contend these farmworkers in North Carolina are denied benefits, including wages and the ability to form unions. A growers representative called the move "a publicity stunt." The Mexican government offered few details when it announced the review last week....

<p>Matiana Perez de Valencia, 51, and her son Jesus, 14, live in Yuba City. Her late husband worked as a bracero in the 1940s and 1950s and told her he never received all the money he earned. The bracero program was instituted during World War II because of a labor shortage.</p>

<p>Gov. Gray Davis, choosing between bitter opponents in one of the most controversial calls of the 2002 legislative session, has signed bills offering mediation to California farmworkers in labor disputes with farmers.</p> <p>The governor's action capped months of political rallies that included a farmworker march through the Central Valley to Sacramento and a weekslong vigil by farmworkers and their supporters at the Capitol.</p>

<p>The union gathers at the Capitol today to press for revisions in the state labor law.</p> <p>The United Farm Workers will descend on the Capitol today in a campaign that supporters say proves the union is holding its ground and that critics argue is a sign of its waning significance as a force in labor relations.</p>

Study: Farmworkers More Diseased Study: Hispanic Farmworkers Experience Higher Rates of Leukemia, Brain, Skin Cancers FRESNO, Calif. March 17 — A state agency's study found that Hispanic farmworkers have higher rates of brain, leukemia, skin and stomach cancers than other Hispanics in California, a phenomenon their union blames on pesticide exposure.Female Hispanic farmworkers also had more cases of uterine cancer than the rest of the state's Hispanic women, according to the Cancer Registry of California study, "Cancer Incidence in the United Farm Workers of America, 1987-1997."The study, published in the November issue of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, doesn't...