Daily Border Bulletin- Bill seeks to keep immigrant families together, Latinos are majority of strawberry growers, and more

Submitted by Tania Lara on 7/17/12

Daily Border Bulletin is up! Today's stories include:

Bill seeks to keep immigrant families together- The Help Separated Families Act, H.R. 6128, authored by Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, addresses the growing number of U.S. born children placed in foster care as a result of immigration enforcement actions, with the intent to keep children of detained or removed parents united with their families.

Latinos in New Mexico file racial profiling complaints- Six people filed racial profiling complaints against the Farmington Police Department and the San Juan County Sheriff’s Department over accusations that the agencies used race and ethnicity to inquire about immigration status.

Latinos are majority of strawberry growers in California- Latinos now comprise two-thirds of strawberry growers in California, where 90 percent of the nation’s strawberries are grown.