America’s Farms Depend More Than Ever on a Troubled Visa Program

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In the early months of the year, thousands of men make their way north from Mexico and Central America to tend America’s most delicate crops. They travel on chartered buses through the night to farms where they spend most of the year picking crops like blueberries and celery, produce still harvested best by human hands. These are America’s H-2A workers, named for the visa the federal government grants them. The program is uncapped, and available to seasonal agricultural employers who can’t find

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America’s Farms Depend More Than Ever on a Troubled Visa Program https://www.nytimes.com - 04.06.2026 21:20