Migrant Farm Workers

The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center says some symptomatic farmworkers are running into delays and barriers when they reach out to health departments for PPE, avian flu tests, or even just seasonal flu shots.

On today’s program, environmental concerns over legislation to bring big data centers to Michigan. Then, a ballast water balancing act between U.S. and Canadian regulations for freighters on the Great Lakes. And, what you need to know about Bird Flu spreading to humans in our state.

Analyzing Michigan's "Uncommitted" vote from this week's presidential primary, new ways to connect small farms to city consumers, and celebrating Grand Rapids' Latino history.

Where do guns go after being "bought back?," twins brothers on decades of performing together for children, and the on-going abuse of migrant laborers.

The Farm Workforce Modernization Act has already passed the House, but it faces an unclear future in the U.S. Senate.

Some of Michigan’s undocumented migrant farmworkers are travelling to the U.S. Capitol this week to advocate for a path to citizenship. That’s after a Senate official blocked immigration reforms in a budget bill.

Each year, Michigan becomes a temporary home to tens of thousands of migrant and seasonal farmworkers, and Lupita Perales with the United Farmworkers…

Dr. Eric Bouwens, a physician and photographer, spent several years in Sparta, Michigan treating migrant farm workers who were harvesting in “Fruit…

The Michigan Farm Bureau has some concerns about a state emergency order that agricultural and food processing workers get tested for COVID-19.The…

More than 50 workers at a farm in Coldwater are under quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19.The outbreak happened at Maroa Farms, which has…