The Cato Institute published my latest Immigration Research and Policy Brief today. It provides basic facts about the H-2A visa program that farms use to hire guest workers. It contains a massive table of the 209 major H-2A rules that farmers must follow, which stretches for 14 pages in the print version, but perhaps nothing captures H-2A’s oppressive level of regulatory morass than Figure 4’s flow chart of the H-2A process.
The flow chart is a two‐page maze of bureaucracy. It contains 69 action boxes. At every point there’s a possibility that an application or worker could be denied or delayed, upending the harvest for farmers. Its six sections represent the six government entities that conduct oversight over the H-2A program and that have the power to bar employers from hiring workers. Embedded within each step are dozens of rules and requirements. Each box represents a cost to employers and workers preparing and justifying their need to hire or work in this country.
Read more at https://www.cato.org/blog/one-image-capture-unending-complexity-h-2a-visa-program
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