Source: David North, CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES, 9/4/18



Here's a mildly cheering thought for Labor Day week: The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL), admittedly from a small numerical base, has moved in 2018 to banish more than twice as many bad-acting users of foreign farm labor from the H-2A program than in the comparable period the year before. Alien farm workers, often illiterate and a long way from big-city advocacy organizations, have traditionally been exploited by many H-2A employers. When DoL catches an employer with a particularly bad record, it denies the employer use of the program from one or more years. They call it "debarment" and it happens much too rarely.

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