Every week, much like I suspect is similar with many of you, I go to the supermarket or the store to get fresh foods to make dinner for my family of eight. But ever stop and wonder; how is all of this food so readily available for our consumption?
For just a second I would like to take you into the shoes of migrant farmers. Why they are here, what do they do, and what their work entails. The first person I’m going to talk about is Angel*. He moved to California when he was fifteen years old, no family, no money, no home. He started working on a farm, planting peppers and he made $5.75 per hour. Two years after moving here he met Caitlyn* his soon to be wife. Together they came up with an idea to start their own farm, to make a difference in …show more content…
Why is our immigration system so hard to navigate? Well to even start to comprehend the answer to this question I have decided to start at the root of it all. The H2a visa. In fact farm owners themselves in much of central and southern united states are voicing their opinion that the H2a is affecting the agriculture industry in a detrimental way. According to National Public Radio the visa is in its third consecutive delayed year. And Boswell associated with the American Farm Bureau is now stating that domestic farm labor has almost completely dried up (Boswell). So shouldn’t there be an easier more reliable way to get the farm industry and migrant farmers what they need? Because the system that is laid out right now is not doing it’s job. The H2a is designed to allow migrant farmers to come to the united states and provide the working hands that employers need while at the same time giving preference to American workers. But quite frankly American workers do not want the jobs they are offered and with so many people unemployed it is making a barrier so that employers are not allowed to file for H2a workers. Due to the lack of farm hands Boswell discloses the industry is losing hundreds of thousands of dollars {farmers have
For just a second I would like to take you into the shoes of migrant farmers. Why they are here, what do they do, and what their work entails. The first person I’m going to talk about is Angel*. He moved to California when he was fifteen years old, no family, no money, no home. He started working on a farm, planting peppers and he made $5.75 per hour. Two years after moving here he met Caitlyn* his soon to be wife. Together they came up with an idea to start their own farm, to make a difference in …show more content…
Why is our immigration system so hard to navigate? Well to even start to comprehend the answer to this question I have decided to start at the root of it all. The H2a visa. In fact farm owners themselves in much of central and southern united states are voicing their opinion that the H2a is affecting the agriculture industry in a detrimental way. According to National Public Radio the visa is in its third consecutive delayed year. And Boswell associated with the American Farm Bureau is now stating that domestic farm labor has almost completely dried up (Boswell). So shouldn’t there be an easier more reliable way to get the farm industry and migrant farmers what they need? Because the system that is laid out right now is not doing it’s job. The H2a is designed to allow migrant farmers to come to the united states and provide the working hands that employers need while at the same time giving preference to American workers. But quite frankly American workers do not want the jobs they are offered and with so many people unemployed it is making a barrier so that employers are not allowed to file for H2a workers. Due to the lack of farm hands Boswell discloses the industry is losing hundreds of thousands of dollars {farmers have