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fromTruthout
6 days ago

For Mexican Workers, Temporary Farmwork Visas Facilitate Abuse and Exploitation

to the consulate in Monterrey, an industrial epicenter in the northeastern state of Nuevo León. Like millions of Mexican workers who came before her, Isabella's consulate visit in 2020 was the final hurdle before the U.S. government granted what felt like a small miracle: a coveted H-2A visa that allows workers, the vast majority of whom are from Mexico, to traverse the border for lawful employment in the U.S. as seasonal agricultural workers.
Agriculture
fromSlate Magazine
1 week ago

Trump's Attack on Visas

American agriculture relies on foreign workers, and they rely on the H-2A visa program to work legally in the United States. Despite a growing number of people applying for visa spots, the Trump administration has proposed cutting the division of the Department of Labor that enforces H-2A rules, leaving workers to choose between being vulnerable to ICE or to exploitation.
Agriculture
US news
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Some Florida farmers reduce crops as deportation fears drive workers away

Immigration enforcement and deportations have sharply reduced migrant farm labor, forcing a Florida strawberry farmer to cut production to about 35 percent.
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