Resources

State-by-state chart showing the 2020 and 2021 Adverse Effect Wages Rates (AEWR) for the H-2A guestworker program.

List of resources that explore the history of the Bracero Program.

Letter from the Department of Labor responding to an FJ letter dated March 25, 2020 requesting Covid-19 protections for guestworkers … Read more DOL response to FJ’s letter requesting Covid-19 protections for guestworkers in the H-2A visa program (July 6, 2020)

Letter from FJ and other farmworker advocates urging the Departments of Labor, State and Homeland Security to enforce  legal protections … Read more Farmworker Advocates Seek Protections Against COVID-19 for Agricultural Guestworkers (March 25, 2020)

In March 2020, Rep. Yoho (R-FL) introduced the “Labor Certainty for Food Security Act of 2020,” H.R. 6083. It would … Read more Fact Sheet: Rep. Yoho’s Guestworker Bill Would Significantly Reduce H-2A Program Protections and Create an Additional Exploitative Program

This report analyzes the massive wage cuts that would result from proposals being considered in Congress and the Trump administration … Read more Congress and the Administration Must Not Cut Farmworkers’ Wages in the H-2A Guestworker Program (May 2020)

Factsheet explaining the H-2A  temporary foreign agricultural worker program, a flawed scheme that permits agricultural employers who anticipate a labor shortage … Read more Factsheet on the H-2A Temporary Foreign Agricultural Worker Program (Feb. 2020)

Comments submitted to the U.S. Department of Labor by Farmworker Justice and 41 other organizations on the H-2A temporary visa program.

During World War II, Congress responded to growers’ worries about a shortage of agricultural workers by approving the temporary entry … Read more Bracero Program

This report is based on interviews with current and former H-2A workers and documents the human toll of a system … Read more No Way to Treat a Guest: Why the H-2A Agricultural Visa Program Fails U.S. and Foreign Workers