This form of legal immigration is soaring
Story Date: 6/25/2018

 

Source: Margaret Newkirk and Michael Sasso, BLOOMBERG, 6/20/18



As the fight over undocumented immigrants reaches a fever pitch along the U.S.-Mexican border, a surging number of farmworkers are arriving to pick tobacco, sweet potatoes and blueberries -- and doing so legally. The number of migrant workers in the U.S. on temporary agricultural visas is up 159 percent since 2011, as U.S. farmers seek replacements for the thousands of undocumented farmworkers scared away by anti-immigrant policies.

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