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 …
H-2A Visas
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 ali…
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 …
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 officeholde…
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 a…
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-…
A House Democrats’ bill aimed at relieving the economic devastation of coronavirus is named the “Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act.” An appropriately short subtitle would be the “Take Foreign Workers First Act.” Embedded in the 1,119-pag…
A House Democrats’ bill aimed at relieving the economic devastation of coronavirus is named the “Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act.” An appropriately short subtitle would be the “Take Foreign Workers First Act.” Embedded in the 1,119-pag…