H-2A Visa part of Yuma County's 2024 Federal Legislative Priorities
Yuma County's 2024 Federal Legislative Priorities include supporting the agricultural workforce with an H-2A Temporary Agricultural Program.
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Yuma County's 2024 Federal Legislative Priorities include supporting the agricultural workforce with an H-2A Temporary Agricultural Program.
A local farmer said, "I have had one American applicant that has come to me for a job ... once they got to the farm they worked one day and never showed up again."
Until we truly reckon with the almighty agricultural industry that abuses our farmworkers with impunity, there can be no future where agriculture miraculously saves us from the damage already wrought on our agrifood systems.
S we encounter the hottest summer days we have ever experienced, let us remember that it is not us working over 12 hours a day in the hot sun
As U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo works with House colleagues to improve a visa program for foreign agricultural workers, she'll consider ways to improve communication for everyone involved in the program, how the program might be expanded to operators who are currently excluded and how wages are calculated within the program.