H-2A is the current law that allows guest workers to legally work in US agriculture. These are some statements about the agricultural industries problems with e-verify requirements. Its the part of the immigration puzzle that no one seems to understand. We need the labor force, our economy will suffer without it, and we do not have it domestically. Ideology fails here.
Voluntary association hurts no one (except those who use the government to enforce protectionist policy)
Both sides understand exactly. That is why we are still, to this day, pretty much just talking about it.
What is wrong in posting jobs on the internet that mostly are the ones Americans don't want to do, like farming? Let people who are willing to work them sign up for them. They could be checked out while waiting to be called. Then when some farmer needs help, call the first name on the list and give him a 5 year work permit? Being already checked out, there should be no reason to take months to do it.
I agree, but for some reason the public is apparently still in the dark. Immigration, if we watch the media, is all about either hating them or crime and social service cost. The real truth is that the needs of the agricultural employers and the functionality of immigration law have not matched for decades.
Who will work in the agricultural industry just long enough to realize that they aren't really starving at home. Average US field worker employment is about 19 hours, just long enough for them to wake up the next day and decide to quit.
Well it could be part of a welfare program. People able to work should work. Farm jobs could be one of them. Roosevelt did it back in the 1930's.
Sure, they say they would rather work, but give them the opportunity like working in the farming industry and they won't stay long. So why is it only south of the border migrants will do it? Because they are desperate and have no safety net to fall back on. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
