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April 13, 2020

Trump Moves to Slash Pay for Essential Migrant Farmworkers
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The Trump administration is working to slash the wages of migrant
farmworkers, even as it works to send direct aid to farmers and ranchers
hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. The plan, led by White House Chief of
Staff Mark Meadows and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, would lower
pay for some 250,000 foreign guest laborers, even though they've been
declared "essential workers." The immigrant rights group Movimiento
Cosecha tweeted in response, "The lives of essential workers feeding the
country during this pandemic simply do not matter to the agriculture
industry or to the government."


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