Migrant farm workers

A lawsuit filed by the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center (MIRC) claims First Pick Farms forced a group of immigrant workers in North Carolina to work at the company’s blueberry farm in West Olive, Michigan in 2017. The farm allegedly threatened to report workers who didn’t comply to immigration authorities.

The hearing was held on Monday in Hartford Michigan, a little over nine years after the Michigan Civil Rights Commission released the first report on the…

"We are at a point right now where the shortage in the agricultural industry is really causing a lot of issues across the whole, like in the agricultural…