The number of legal foreign farmworkers picking crops in American fields more than tripled over the past decade, a statistic that could help lawmakers pushing to make the temporary worker program more attractive.
Laborers participating in the H-2A temporary agricultural worker program spiked to 258,000 in 2019 from 79,000 in 2010, according to a new report by the Agriculture Department’s Economic Research Service.
The data shows how foreign labor is a crucial part of the U.S. food supply. It comes as lawmakers are negotiating a revamp of the H-2A program through the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (
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