ICE raids hit South Texas builders hard. Now, a Texas Republican is floating a new legal work visa for construction.

The state’s agriculture industry relies on the H-2A farmworker visa program. A federal lawsuit is challenging the change.

Monica De La Cruz told a McAllen crowd Monday she is hunting for ways to open legal work lanes for migrant construction ...

(WNDU) - We are entering the season of harvest, and farm owners continue to struggle. As the price of crops — including corn and soybeans — plunged, they’re now facing another challenge: labor ...

Marco is an H-2A visa immigrant farm laborer employed by Fresh Harvest on April 28, 2020 in Salinas, California. Fresh Harvest is the one of the largest employers of people using the H-2A temporary ...

Farmworkers harvest a field, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Homestead, Fla. The H-2A program has allowed foreign workers to fill agricultural jobs on a temporary basis for decades. But intense ...

(The Center Square) – A Texas lawmaker introduced legislation to reform the H-2A visa program for agricultural workers. U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, introduced the Bracero Program 2.0 Act, a ...

American agriculture relies on foreign workers, and that workforce is already stretched thin. With Trump's immigration ...

An employee of Ailes Detasseling walks through a seed corn field near Utica, Neb., in 2024. Detasseling is seen as a rite of passage for Midwest teenagers, but in recent years, more of the detasseling ...

Legal temporary farm workers also worry about the H-2A visa program and Trump’s anti-immigration regime ...