Tell your Smart Speaker play cspan radio. Cspan is your unfiltered view of government. Full funding provided by these Television Companies and more. Including midco. Midco. Supports cspan as a Public Service along with these other Television Providers giving you a frontrow seat to democracy. Joined and advocates to give testimony on the role of Migrant Workers in u. S. Farming and food production. This meeting will come to order. Last week the members of the committee traveled home for memorial day. It was an opportunity to learn more about constituent concerns. Everywhere i traveled i heard the same thing. I am sure other members did as well. Our nation is in need of legal workers. We have roughly 10 million unfilled jobs in this country and too few workers to fill them. The shortages hurting every industry and every community. I visited dictator, illinois. I have never heard this before. They have too many Job Vacancies , they are desperate for workers. I do not think i have ever hea
As farmers and companies in the food and ag sector struggle to find workers, many have increasingly turned to recruiting foreign workers through visa programs, including H-2A. Demand for H-2A workers, who can take seasonal jobs on crop or livestock operations, has been skyrocketing. Meanwhile, others in the sector are trying to use smaller visa programs, such as H-2B or J-1.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday held a hearing titled “From Farm to Table: Immigrant Workers Get the Job Done.” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-ill., and Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., both cited the.