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USCIS Can’t Get Enough of Unlimited Ag Visas

Bob Dane — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 00:24:45 +0000

A curious memo from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently touted “expansion of labor pathways” for foreign farmworkers into the U.S. The announcement was odd because there are no caps on H-2A visas, so talk of “expansion” seems superfluous, if not nonsensical. Beyond that, the memo promoted a lone nonprofit group that has received [...]

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Agriculture Department Moves to Make Foreign Farm Workers Cheaper

Preston Huennekens — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 19:08:22 +0000

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a notice in the Federal Register that they will refuse to collect the wage data necessary to establish wage rates for H-2A agricultural guestworkers. This will have the effect of lowering wages for workers in the H-2A program, an unlimited guest worker program that research shows already certifies foreign [...]

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Defense of farm workforce bill falls woefully short

Preston Huennekens — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:32:32 +0000

A recent column in the Richmond Times-Dispatch authored by John C. Watkins and Craig Regelbrugge exaggerates the benefits of H.R. 5038, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act. The column makes three claims in particular that demand further scrutiny. The writers boldly suggest that “the visa program known as H-2A is expensive, bureaucratic and unreliable. It falls [...]

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Powerful Ag Group Once Again Standing in the Way of Mandatory E-Verify

RJ Hauman — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 10:00:22 +0000

On Wednesday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) introduced the bipartisan AG and Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 6417) – legislation that would mandate E-Verify and create a new agricultural guest worker program. The bill’s introduction represents the first step in fulfilling a promise made by House Speaker Paul Ryan to hold a vote on [...]

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A Confused Trump Would Run Farm Workers Deeper Into the Ditch

Bob Dane — Fri, 04 May 2018 13:39:23 +0000

President Donald Trump had them – then he didn’t. Speaking to an appreciative crowd in Michigan last weekend, Trump got thunderous ovations for his repeated pledge to protect U.S. jobs. Then, turning to agriculture, he declared, “We have to let people come in. They’re going to be guest workers, they’re going to work on your [...]

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Congress Shouldn’t Use Spending Bill to Expand Guest Worker Program

Shari Rendall — Tue, 10 May 2016 13:08:40 +0000

Instead of using its power of the purse to rein in President Obama’s unconstitutional executive amnesty programs, or closing the TVPRA loophole which would subject all unaccompanied alien minors to the same removal process, or holding sanctuary city jurisdictions accountable, some lawmakers on both sides of the Capitol would rather focus their energy on expanding [...]

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