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‘Modern-Day Slavery’ Ring Busted in Georgia

Bob Dane — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 19:12:31 +0000

More than 100 migrant farm workers in the southeast U.S. were freed from the “shackles of modern-day slavery” when federal agents broke up a transnational crime ring. Two-dozen people, including illegal aliens, were indicted last month on 54 counts of international forced labor trafficking, mail fraud, money laundering and other charges. The indictments, announced in [...]

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Farm Groups Pressure Senate for More Foreign Farmworkers

Preston Huennekens — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 18:05:09 +0000

The Agricultural Workforce Coalition (AWC), a group of farming and agricultural organizations, sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) pressuring them to pass legislation addressing alien farmworkers. Most of the letter bemoans the H-2A agricultural guestworker program, and specifically asks the Senate to “pass legislation to [...]

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2020 Cases Demonstrate How Guestworker Programs Are Abused

Pawel Styrna — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 20:06:55 +0000

The big picture argument against the alphabet soup of guestworker programs (the H-1B, H-2B, H-2A, etc.) is that they are essentially a cheap labor subsidy to business resulting in stagnant wages or outright job losses for American workers. The foreign workers, in turn, may be better off in terms of wages than they would have [...]

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Maine Loggers Blast Federal Government For Not Enforcing Immigration Law

Jason Pena — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:10:50 +0000

The American purview of immigration seems to rarely drift away from our southern border. However, that does not mean illegal migration and trade on our northern borders is any less detrimental to U.S. citizens. In mid-September, one elected officeholder sounded the alarm on the immigration trends displacing constituents from jobs in his state. President of [...]

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DHS Allows Agricultural Guestworkers to Stay Indefinitely

Preston Huennekens — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 16:46:36 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spur change across the federal government’s leviathan bureaucracy. On April 15, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a new, “temporary” rule change to the H-2A agricultural guestworker program. This temporary rule now allows employers to begin hiring H-2A workers who are already in [...]

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U.S. ‘Waives’ Through Foreign Farm Hands as Unemployment Soars

Bob Dane — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 08:56:44 +0000

In the face of skyrocketing unemployment, the federal government continues to put foreign workers on a fast track for U.S. agricultural jobs. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo authorized consular officers to waive the visa interview requirement for first-time and returning H-2 (semi-skilled, blue-collar) applicants, including farm workers. “We anticipate the vast majority of otherwise qualified [...]

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