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  2. The farm workers heading to US without breaking the law - AOL

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    Agricultural workers from Central American countries can currently work legally on US farms. ... The foreign workers can stay for up to 12 months, before they then have to go back to their home ...

  3. H-2A visa - Wikipedia

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    An H-2A visa allows a foreign national worker into the United States for temporary agricultural work. There are several requirements of the employer in regard to this visa. The H-2A temporary agricultural program establishes a means for agricultural employers who anticipate a shortage of domestic workers to bring non-immigrant foreign workers to the U.S. to perform agricultural labor or ...

  4. Farmworkers in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Only 49.2% of all farm laborers are United States citizens, and nearly 3/4 farm workers are foreign born, with nearly 70% have been born in Mexico. [14] Since 1991 to 2001, the general trend is an overall increase in the number of foreign born, unauthorized farm workers.

  5. South Carolina grower took farmworkers' pay for political ...

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    "Titan Farms is proud to participate in the H-2A temporary seasonal worker program. East of the workers enters the United States with a passport and visa to work at Titan Farms," according to the ...

  6. Temporary farmworkers get more protections against ... - AOL

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    Temporary farmworkers will have more legal protections against employer retaliation, unsafe working conditions, illegal recruitment practices and other abuses under a Labor Department rule ...

  7. Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act of ...

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    The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (AWPA or MSPA) (public law 97-470) (January 14, 1983), codified at 29 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1872, is the main federal law that protects farm workers in the United States and repealed and replaced the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act (P.L. 88-582).

  8. Immigrant US farmworkers prepare for Trump mass ... - AOL

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    About half of hired farmworkers nationwide lack legal immigration status, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and farm trade groups have warned deporting them could bring the country ...

  9. Guest worker program - Wikipedia

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    The Bracero Program was a temporary-worker importation agreement between the United States and Mexico from 1942 to 1964. Initially created in 1942 as an emergency procedure to alleviate wartime labor shortages, the program actually lasted until 1964, bringing approximately 4.5 million legal Mexican workers into the United States during its lifespan.