The Shadow Labor Market: How the Government's Priorities Are Leaving Foreign Workers Behind The collision of interests between the government's duty to protect foreign workers and its efforts to prop up struggling farm industries has been a long simmering issue in the United States.
A recent examination of this complex web of policies reveals that the Trump administration's push to reshape the H 2A visa program has had far reaching consequences for migrant laborers, who are already vulnerable to exploitation.
The H 2A program was intended to provide a safety net for foreign workers brought into the country to fill agricultural jobs.