Arthur N Read

October 15, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

Justice at Work (formerly Friends of Farmworkers, Inc.) has long played an active role in advocacy both within Pennsylvania and nationally on behalf of Limited English Proficient (LEP) individuals. The need for such advocacy has long been apparent for most of the clients of the organization in our more than 45 years of work as a nonprofit legal services organization.

By Arthur N. Read

8 minute read

October 28, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

"I worked day and night for three years and for what? To be robbed of $12,000." Maria was defrauded by a "notario" in Pennsylvania who was practicing law without a license and had promised her immigration relief for which she did not actually qualify.

By Arthur N. Read and Vanessa Stine

6 minute read

May 12, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

There has long been widespread consensus that the federal government must reform immigration law and policies in order to address both the need of the economy for immigrant workers in a nation with an aging native-born population and the large number of "unauthorized" immigrants who are present in the United States. The difficulty is that there is no consensus on what the terms of such immigration law "reform" should be.

By Arthur N. Read

8 minute read

May 13, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Since 2000, national labor organizations have consistently supported "comprehensive immigration reform."

By Arthur N. Read

6 minute read

January 25, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Friends of Farmworkers Inc. is a Pennsylvania-based, nonprofit legal services organization whose mission is to improve the living and working conditions of indigent or distressed farmworkers, mushroom workers, food-processing workers, workers from immigrant and migrant communities and their families.

By Arthur N. Read

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