Source: UC DAVIS, RURAL MIGRATION NEWS, 6/21/21


The H-2A program allows farm employers who are unable to fill seasonal jobs to be certified by DOL to employ H-2A guest workers after they try and fail to recruit US workers. DOL must also determine that the presence of the H-2A workers will not adversely affect US workers.

The number of farm jobs certified by DOL to be filled by H-2A workers more than tripled, from 75,000 in FY05 to 275,000 in FY20, and increased by 20 percent between the half of FY20 and the first half of FY21, putting DOL on track to certify more than 300,000 jobs to be filled by H-2A workers.

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