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  2. 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 ...

  3. The elaborate visa system that enables foreigners to work in ...

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    Very similar to the H-2A visa, the H-2B is for workers who provide non-agricultural labor that is temporary. The State Department defines temporary as a one-time occurrence, seasonal need, peak ...

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

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    Billed as the largest peach grower on the East Coast, Titan violated H-2A program rules by requesting workers make political contributions that brought their pay below the required $11.13 hour ...

  5. Adverse Effect Wage Rate - Wikipedia

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    The Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) is the minimum wage that the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has determined "must be offered and paid to U.S. and alien workers by agricultural employers of nonimmigrant H-2A visa agricultural workers" (Federal Register, February 10, 1999, p. 6690).

  6. Operation Blooming Onion - Wikipedia

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    From the 2010s through the 2020s, the H-2A visa program grew significantly as farm owners struggled to hire enough domestic workers to tend to their crops. [5] Between 2010 and 2020, the number of people in Georgia who were in the state via an H-2A visa grew from roughly 5,500 to 27,614, [5] second only to Florida in the number of H-2A visa ...

  7. Federal judge blocks Biden labor protections for foreign ...

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    Temporary agricultural workers with H-2A work visas wait in line to cross the San Ysidro Port of Entry on their way to seasonal jobs in the United States on March 22, 2022 in Tijuana, Mexico.

  8. ‘Not enough beds’ A look at the farmworker housing crisis in ...

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    The state’s largest H-2A employment agency, Wafla partners with recruiters in Mexico to fill H-2A positions at Washington’s farms and ranches, as well as some farms in Oregon and Idaho.

  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.