The state’s agriculture industry relies on the H-2A farmworker visa program. A federal lawsuit is challenging the change.

Marco is an H-2A visa immigrant farm laborer employed by Fresh Harvest on April 28, 2020 in Salinas, California. Fresh Harvest is the one of the largest employers of people using the H-2A temporary ...

(WNDU) - We are entering the season of harvest, and farm owners continue to struggle. As the price of crops — including corn and soybeans — plunged, they’re now facing another challenge: labor ...

Lilford could not afford a last-minute flight halfway across the world. There’s a market for lending to H-2A workers crunched for time, he said — one dominated by “people doing scams to get your ...

Cherries, apples, blueberries, asparagus, squash. Hundreds of crops grow in Michigan soil, the second most diverse agricultural state in the country. With more than 47,000 farms, agriculture stands ...

Farmworkers harvest a field, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Homestead, Fla. The H-2A program has allowed foreign workers to fill agricultural jobs on a temporary basis for decades. But intense ...

American agriculture relies on foreign workers, and that workforce is already stretched thin. With Trump’s immigration ...

(The Center Square) – A Texas lawmaker introduced legislation to reform the H-2A visa program for agricultural workers. U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, introduced the Bracero Program 2.0 Act, a ...

Thousands of Jamaican workers who come to the US on an H-2A visa say they aren’t sure if they’ll be able to return from one year to the next ...

Legal temporary farm workers also worry about the H-2A visa program and Trump’s anti-immigration regime ...