Agricultural Guest Workers : Legislative Activity in the 113th Congress.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Noncitizens.

Farms.

Migrant labor.

Passports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (11 p), digital, PDF file)

monochrome

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Summarizes issues regarding the H-2A visa program, which allows agricultural guest workers to legally perform temporary or seasonal farm work. Examines related legislation introduced in the113th Congress, including H.R. 1773, the Agricultural Guest Worker Act, and S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, both to establish new temporary agricultural worker visas to replace the H-2A visa.

Notes:

Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed May 2014). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.

CRS Report.

Other Format:

Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Agricultural Guest Workers

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