Siri Kaur

Palmeros are the gutsy, highly skilled farm workers who harvest your medjool dates. Now climate change, immigration raids, and a push for mechanization threaten their 6,000-year-old tradition. 

Ghosts of the Grove

In calls to recognize immigrants as people, too often they’re reduced to what they produce and how they support our economy.

More Than Their Work

Formerly known as the Rio Vista Bracero Reception Center, this newly recognized landmark used to be a processing center for large numbers of immigrants from Mexico.

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Ghosts of the Grove

More Than Their Work

This Texas Farm Once Welcomed 80,000 Migrant Workers Per Year