California Governor Gavin Newsom said a $52 million funding is eyed for Latinos in the Central Valley area as they have been disproportionately harmed by the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
It is only now that the farmworkers are recognized as essential workers in the U.S. workforce. However, they have always been essential even before the COVID-19 crisis.
The Department of Justice published a statement addressing a Northern District of Ohio's federal court's decision to unseal a 15-count superseding indictment that charges three defendants who lured Guatemalan minors and adults into the U.S. under false pretenses and used threats of physical harm to coerce them into forced labor on an egg farm in Ohio.
Four hundred children and young adults were liberated from slave-like conditions, after being subjected to exhaustive work at Mexican farms for a year, according to Alfonso Navarrete, Secretary of Labor in Mexico and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
Walt Disney Pictures revisits Latino diversity with its release of the heroic sports film, "McFarland, USA," starring Kevin Costner and Carlos Pratts ("The Bridge") on Feb. 20, 2015.
