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Use the search bar on the right to search using key words, or browse through all of our resources by topic by clicking on the drop-down menus on the left. Some of our featured resources are posted below.

Congress and the Administration Must Not Cut Farmworkers’ Wages in the H-2A Guestworker Program (May 2020)

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)

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Factsheet on the H-2A Temporary Foreign Agricultural Worker Program (Feb. 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)

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FJ Comments on Proposed H-2A Rulemaking (2019)

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

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No Way to Treat a Guest: Why the H-2A Agricultural Visa Program Fails U.S. and Foreign Workers

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

Bruce Goldstein Congressional Testimony on H-2A Program

April 2011 written testimony by Farmworker Justice President Bruce Goldstein before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Policy regarding the … Read more Bruce Goldstein Congressional Testimony on H-2A Program

Bruce Goldstein Congressional Testimony on Agricultural Labor

September 2011 written testimony by Farmworker Justice President Bruce Goldstein before the Workforce Protections Subcommittee of the House Education and … Read more Bruce Goldstein Congressional Testimony on Agricultural Labor

Weeding out Abuses: Recommendations for a law-abiding farm labor system

Written by Farmworker Justice and Oxfam America, this report chronicles a broken farm labor system that encourages lawlessness and exploitation … Read more Weeding out Abuses: Recommendations for a law-abiding farm labor system

  • Legislation
      • Legislative Proposals on Agricultural Workers - 113th Congress (2013-2014)
      • Legislative Proposals on Agricultural Workers - 114th Congress (2015-2016)
      • Legislative Proposals on Agricultural Workers - 115th Congress (2017-2018)
      • Legislative Proposals on Agricultural Workers - 116th Congress (2019-2020)
      • Legislative Proposals on Agricultural Workers - 117th Congress (2021-2022)
      • Legislative Proposals on Agricultural Workers - 118th Congress (2023-2024)