Empowering the Immigrant Community: CATA’s Outreach in the First Quarter of 2025
The start of 2025 has been pivotal for immigrants. CATA hosted Know Your Rights workshops, legal clinics, and consulate collaborations—empowering farmworkers and families through education, resources, and community meetings. We continue building power and demanding justice together.
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CATA ON THE NEWS
Throughout communities of “panicked” undocumented farmworkers, however, “people are jittery — talking so fast, crying, losing sleep, and keeping kids out of school,” said Meghan Hurley, policy and advocacy organizer for CATA, a nonprofit helping farmworkers and the Latino immigrant community in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
Meghan Hurley, policy and advocacy organizer for CATA, an organization that advocates for farm workers and the Latino immigrant community in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.Monica Herndon / Staff Photographer
Unfair labor laws are cheating farmworkers, lawsuit claims
CATA and legal partners filed a lawsuit against New Jersey for excluding farmworkers from fair wage and overtime laws. They argue this violates civil rights, deepens inequality, and leaves vulnerable immigrant laborers struggling despite their essential contributions to the food system.
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The plaintiffs want farmworkers to receive the same minimum wage and overtime requirements that most other workers get. (Courtesy of the New Jersey Department of Agriculture)