Here's a great deal of the reason we have agricultural illegals

[Mik]

https://www.usafarmlabor.com/blog/breakdown-of-the-h-2a-timeline

[Jolly]

Because the process is too complicated or the government can't meet the timelines of its own process?

[Mik]

Both I think. The folks we have coming across for ag work are unlikely to be able to navigate this process.

[89th]

Both. Reducing federal staffing levels without any strategic logic isn’t going to help the delays.

[Mik]

I fail to believe it’s a matter of staffing. More like a lack of motivation and an onerous process that promotes illegal entry.

[89th]

True

[taiwan_girl]

I think we are forgetting wages. That is a big incentive to hire someone who is in the US illegally.

[LuFins Dad]

@89th said in Here's a great deal of the reason we have agricultural illegals:

Both. Reducing federal staffing levels without any strategic logic isn’t going to help the delays.

No, but it gives us excess workers to go harvest oranges…

[Mik]

@LuFins-Dad

[89th]

@LuFins-Dad said in Here's a great deal of the reason we have agricultural illegals:

@89th said in Here's a great deal of the reason we have agricultural illegals:

Both. Reducing federal staffing levels without any strategic logic isn’t going to help the delays.

No, but it gives us excess workers to go harvest oranges…

I first read that as organs. Probably because I just finished Squid Game!

[Mik]

@89th