Some 3,300 of those laborers are foreign seasonal workers, who arrived on a temporary visa with the bureaucratic name of H2A. The number of H2A visas granted nationally has doubled in the past five years, as farmers sought reliable labor for jobs that they say are shunned by Americans. One factor in its favor: The Trump Winery in Charlottesville has sought 29 temporary immigrant workers since December to help prune its vineyards. His family’s businesses, including the Mar-A-Lago resort, have hired about 500 temporary foreign workers under a similar visa program for non-agricultural temporary foreign workers. Nationally, H2A visas provide about 10 percent of the farm workforce, the American Farm Bureau estimates.

Source: Washington Post April 07, 2017 20:26 UTC