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…
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USCIS Can’t Get Enough of Unlimited Ag Visas
Agriculture Department Moves to Make Foreign Farm Workers Cheaper
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…
Defense of farm workforce bill falls woefully short
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.…
Powerful Ag Group Once Again Standing in the Way of Mandatory E-Verify
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…
A Confused Trump Would Run Farm Workers Deeper Into the Ditch
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…