Resources

Template comments that can be used for the 2019 NPRM on the H-2A program

This shorter H-2A comment template is for use by immigration organizations.

Template comments on the 2019 H-2A Proposed Rule.

Farmworker Justice summary of the July 2019 proposed rulemaking on the H-2A temporary visa program. Comments are due September 24, … Read more FJ Fact Sheet on the 2019 H-2A Rulemaking

Fact sheet detailing some of the main changes proposed to the H-2A temporary agricultural worker visa program by the DOL in 2019. 

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

Report written by the The Southern Poverty Law Center's Immigrant Justice Project which tells the stories of migrant pine tree … Read more Beneath the Pines

American University's Washington College of Law and the Centro de los Derechos del Migrante (Center for Migrant Rights) report on … Read more Picked Apart: The Hidden Struggles of Migrant Worker Women in the Maryland Crab Industry

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

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