agriculture – ImmigrationReform.com https://www.immigrationreform.com The Official Blog of FAIR Wed, 03 Apr 2019 20:20:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.10 https://www.immigrationreform.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cropped-IR-Favicon-100x100.png agriculture – ImmigrationReform.com https://www.immigrationreform.com 32 32 An Impending Guacamole Blockade? https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/04/03/an-impending-guacamole-blockade-immigrationreform-com/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/04/03/an-impending-guacamole-blockade-immigrationreform-com/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2019 20:20:47 +0000 http://live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io/?p=21324 The United States is in the midst of an ongoing border crisis. And, in response, President Trump has considered ordering a shutdown of the southern border. Illegal border crossings hit a decade high in February. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is on track to arrest nearly one million illegal border crossers. What Central American [...]

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]]> https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/04/03/an-impending-guacamole-blockade-immigrationreform-com/feed/ 3 Washington State Farmers Growing Reliance On Cheap Labor https://www.immigrationreform.com/2018/09/11/washington-state-farmers-growing-reliance-on-cheap-labor/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2018/09/11/washington-state-farmers-growing-reliance-on-cheap-labor/#comments Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:42:50 +0000 http://live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io/?p=17594 H-2A applications have surged in the state by more than 1,000 percent in the past ten years.

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]]> https://www.immigrationreform.com/2018/09/11/washington-state-farmers-growing-reliance-on-cheap-labor/feed/ 10 Senator Feinstein Tells ICE to Stop Deporting Illegal Farm Workers https://www.immigrationreform.com/2013/09/12/senator-feinstein-tells-ice-to-stop-deporting-illegal-farm-workers/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2013/09/12/senator-feinstein-tells-ice-to-stop-deporting-illegal-farm-workers/#comments Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:48:46 +0000 http://live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io/?p=4625 Last week, pro-amnesty Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) requested that ICE officials to stop enforcing immigration laws against illegal farm workers and their employers. In a letter to outgoing Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Feinstein urged ICE to replicate for farm workers the administration’s policy halting deportations of illegal aliens who claim to have [...]

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]]> https://www.immigrationreform.com/2013/09/12/senator-feinstein-tells-ice-to-stop-deporting-illegal-farm-workers/feed/ 3 White House Issues Misleading Report on Agriculture’s Need for More Foreign Workers https://www.immigrationreform.com/2013/07/30/white-house-issues-misleading-report-on-agricultures-need-for-more-foreign-workers/ https://www.immigrationreform.com/2013/07/30/white-house-issues-misleading-report-on-agricultures-need-for-more-foreign-workers/#comments Tue, 30 Jul 2013 13:57:13 +0000 http://live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io/?p=4237 The Obama administration has issued another slick report urging adoption of the U.S. Senate’s version of comprehensive immigration reform (S.744) in order to meet the labor needs of agricultural producers. The report ignores the role of mechanized agriculture, and it ignores the current ability of farm employers to bring in an unlimited number of foreign [...]

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