During my final week, I focused almost entirely on concluding the remaining six intakes I was working on that had not yet been resolved. For someone's intake to be closed, we make sure that they have submitted any official documents like demand letters or EEOC complaints which we ask them to reach back out to us when they receive a response. We also often do all that we can on the federal level regarding their cases and then connect them with local attorneys who are licensed to practice in the state where they are working.

With all of my intakes wrapping up, I prepared to present for a second time at the monthly meeting of the Alianza Nacional de Campesinas. This month's workers' rights meeting focused on agricultural salary policies and heat illness prevention. I was given the opportunity to talk about state and federal minimum wages for agriculture workers and lead a discussion about the experiences of migrant workers in relation to these policies. Agricultural labor protections remain incredibly insufficient as a result of anti-Black and anti-immigrant policies. Following the legacy of slavery, federal and state level workers' rights protections have routinely carved out exceptions for the agricultural industry. I touched on this racist aspects of the minimum wage laws in my presentation and connected the fight of Alianza to a long tradition of agricultural workers' movements. Since wage theft is extremely common among agricultural employers, the majority of my presentation explained the different best practices and avenues available for preventing and addressing wage theft. We had another great discussion about the real experiences that the members had had with bringing wage theft cases against their employers and to what extent the resources were effective.

Finally, I finished up a handful of smaller projects that I had been given by various coworkers. Some were drafts of FOIA requests or short reports. One that was especially interesting was a memo about the potential future of the USMCA. Unlike NAFTA, the USMCA actually has a fairly robust section on migrant labor regulations that is understandably a target for the current Trump administration. With a lot of news about the United States potentially breaking away from the agreement, CDM is concerned about what might happen to these critical protections. I created a timeline outlining in what ways the USMCA could be modified or canceled in the future and what it might mean for these migrant workers' rights.