One-third of the unaccompanied minors flooding the southwest border are girls, many escaping sexual violence in Central America, and arriving in the U.S. pregnant or with young children and are left to navigate a precarious health care system.
It took decades, but now California farmworkers will get the pay they deserve. The California Senate passed AB 1066 earlier this month, a bill introduced by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez that will create new rules for overtime pay for farmworkers.