{"id":3948,"date":"2011-01-13T22:34:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T03:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=3948"},"modified":"2011-01-13T22:42:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T03:42:05","slug":"the-associated-press-on-enforceing-immigration-laws-in-business-week-find-any-mention-of-the-h2a-ag-worker-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/13\/the-associated-press-on-enforceing-immigration-laws-in-business-week-find-any-mention-of-the-h2a-ag-worker-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Associated Press on enforceing immigration laws in Business Week: FIND ANY MENTION OF THE H2A AG WORKER VISA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>File this under &#8220;you aren&#8217;t supposed to know this part&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/financialnews\/D9KMB2G82.htm\">HERE<\/a> is the AP report in Business Week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faq.visapro.com\/H2A-Visa-FAQ.asp\"> HERE<\/a> is info on the H2A.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/nationworld\/wire\/sns-ap-us-farmers-immigration,0,634112.story\">  HERE<\/a> is a longer version of the AP report in which there is at least a hint of the H2A, but it is described as more expensive than use of illegal workers &#8211; and less &#8220;flexible&#8221; : <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Farmers rely on seasonal laborers, including many illegal immigrants, to harvest labor-intensive crops such as strawberries, onions, peaches and tobacco. The agriculture lobbying group says Americans refuse to take the difficult, low-paying jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government has a guest-worker program for agriculture workers, but farmers say it&#8217;s expensive to use and inflexible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File this under &#8220;you aren&#8217;t supposed to know this part&#8230;&#8221; HERE is the AP report in Business Week. HERE is info on the H2A. HERE is a longer version of the AP report in which there is at least a hint of the H2A, but it is described as more expensive than use of illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}