agricultural worker

In the past, Del Bosque has been active in advocating for immigration reform, including the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which would have revised the H-2A visa program and created a certified agricultural worker status, to provide eligible laborers with employment authorization and an optional path to residency.

“All that matters is production,” agricultural worker Nazario Sarmiento, 37, said in Spanish.

In the U.S., legislation made great strides to protect migrant farm workers from abusive labor contractors through the 1983 Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico said in a news release that the van passengers were all agricultural workers from Mexico who were in the U.S. on H-2A Temporary Agricultural Worker visas, the East Idaho News reported Thursday.

The H-2A temporary agricultural worker program requires active recruitment of local workers.