The H2a Visa Program
was established for agricultural seasonal workers to ensure support for US
farmers who had crops that could not be harvested by machine and required
harvesting by hand.
There are 900,000 farm
jobs in the US to be done each year. These jobs have been filled by Illegal
Immigrants forever, US Farmers have had the opportunity to recruit seasonal
laborers through referral from their current workers, usually their friends or relatives.
The US is attempting
to expand Legal Temporary Guest Worker Programs to end illegal immigration.
In FY 2018, the US
employed 242,762 H2a Visa Holders. Most of these jobs were in farm states with
crops that required seasonal labor needs.
When most farms were
small family owned and family staffed, their outside labor needs were limited
and rural counties were populated enough to employ summer students and local
laborers.
When US manufacturing
existed in rural counties, the rural labor force was viable. But when the US off-shored these
manufacturing plants, the rural labor force disappeared.
By the 1980s, the A2a
Visa Program had been expanded to include all low skilled workers and they took
the jobs US teenagers had been doing.
Illegal Immigrants began moving their families to the US to take
advantage of US public schools, indigent healthcare and US welfare benefits.
Open borders have come to pose a threat to US security from drug gangs and
terrorists. Most Identity Theft of Social Security Numbers is due to illegal
migrants. These have become too expensive and amount to US taxpayers paying
subsidies for illegal workers. It’s a scam.
This needs to change.
Non-citizens should not be eligible for welfare and immigration must be based
on need and merit. At the same time, students need to retake their low skilled
jobs and relocation of families to the US must be closely regulated. The A2a
Visa needs to be restricted to agricultural seasonal workers.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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