Migrant Legal Action Program

Here's a strong story about how a migrant/community health center is working to ensure access to healthcare in the face of the fears of the immigrant and refugee community in its service area. MLAP has worked with this excellent center in the past on a variety of issues.

In A Border Region Where Immigrants Are Wary, A Health Center Travels To Its Patients The staff of a health center in New York State noticed that farm workers were struggling to get to clinics. So the staff decided to bring check-ups to them — through video.

Here is a wonderful story about a Salinas farmworker who just earned his bachelors with honors at 58 years old! Now he wants to give back to his community as a teacher. This article describes his amazing story, from leaving his native Oaxaca, Mexico to working in the fields of California, of the barriers he faced and the triumphs he achieved, for his family, his community, and eventually, his own education.

From fields to classrooms: Former Salinas farmworker earns bachelor's with honors at 58 He plans to get his master’s in education, too. But teaching in Salinas comes first.

It is graduation season and we are seeing more and more migratory students graduating from college. Here are a few migrant students who proudly stand with their parents. They did not forget where they came from....

Varios hispanos que trabajaban en el campo, o hijos de campesinos, se están graduando de la universidad estos días. Con orgullo muestran sus orígenes en estas imágenes. ¡Felicitaciones a todos ellos!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Following is a story about the challenges faced by many farmworkers from Mexico in their quest to obtain an H-2A temporary agricultural worker visa to work in the U.S.

‘Be very careful’: the dangers for Mexicans working legally on US farms For Mexican farmworkers, seasonal employment in the US is an opportunity to earn more – but those who make the journey can be easily exploited by recruiters