According to federal data compiled in 2022, just under half of all U.S. agricultural workers are undocumented.
, a policy that allowed the U.S. to reject asylum seekers under the COVID-19 public health emergency.
In addition to resuming construction of Trump's border wall, the proposal outlines hundreds of millions of dollars in myriad security upgrades within the's border patrol unit along with mandatory background checks for those apprehended crossing the border without documentation, among numerous other provisions.
A farmworker picks grapes on October 4, 2021, in the Kern County town of Lamont, California. Some fear a newly proposed immigration reform bill could include a mandate that would require farms to verify the immigration status of their employees, potentially threatening the nation's agricultural industry.However, the proposal also includes language requiring all employers in the U.S.
introduced a similar requirement in his failed Affordable and Secure Food Act last year—the GOP's Secure the Border Act lacks language contained in Bennet's bill creating a path to citizenship for farm workers. The GOP plan also lacks language proposing the creation of an improved H-2A visa that would allow migrant workers to work in the United States year-round when applying for farm jobs where nobody else was available, rather than the eight months allowed under current law.
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