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The Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Foreign Labor Certification recently published data on the usage of the H-2A nonimmigrant visa for Fiscal Year 2022 (October…
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…
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing titled “Immigrant Farmworkers are Essential to Feeding America.” The hearing largely focused on the FAIR-opposed Farm Workforce…
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…
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…
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…
On Dec. 11, the U.S. House of Representatives, a body that has managed to accomplish exactly nothing of import in this session, somehow managed to achieve…
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…
This week, the House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 5038 – the Farm Workforce Modernization Act. This bill is a massive amnesty that will give…
Conventional wisdom holds that bipartisan legislation is the best form of law. The “Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019” is a notable exception. With 49 Republican…