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Pros And Cons Of Migrant Farm Workers

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Not all migrant farmworkers are undocumented. For example, H-2A is one of many guest worker visa program that is administered through the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Labor (DOL). The guest visa program offers the US agriculture long term dependence on temporary foreign labor. Foreign workers are also considered easy recruits to fill the tough jobs that US growers say that domestic workers do not want to so. H2A workers are the least regulated of all agricultural workers as they are excluded from the Migrant and Seasonal Worker Protections Act (AWPA) which it creation was intended to address labor issues specific to seasonal agricultural workers. It recruits workers from Mexico with promises of good wages and

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