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America's farms face uncertain future as guest worker program hangs in balance
America's farms face uncertain future as guest worker program hangs in balance
America's farms face uncertain future as guest worker program hangs in balance

Published on: 06/02/2025

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By Tareq Saghie | Edited by Dianne Solis & Alfredo Corchado

Last spring, Carmelo Méndez was pruning peach trees in Colorado on an H-2A visa, missing his children and wife back home, but excited about how his $17.70 hourly wage would improve their lives. This spring, he’s back in the Mexican state of Tlaxcala frantically searching Facebook for a job on one of the thousands of farms across the U.S. that primarily employ guest workers like him.

News Source : https://www.oregonlive.com/palabra/2025/06/the-h-2a-visa-workers-who-feed-america-and-the-system-that-traps-them.html

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