Short-Handed Farm Groups See Path to Bipartisan Immigration Deal

Supporters of legal status for immigrant farmworkers are holding out hope that U.S. lawmakers will prioritize the agricultural workforce in nascent bipartisan immigration talks after previous efforts fell apart.

Advocates see this year as a critical window of opportunity, with only eight months left in the congressional session, and immigration politics likely to get more fraught when new members take their seats next year. The push to create a path to legal status for farmworkers has gotten additional attention amid broader worker shortages, supply chain snafus, and new stress to the global food system stemming from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. ...