September 05, 2023
Farmers, ranchers and an immigration agency sharply rebuffed the Biden administration's arguments that they wouldn't be harmed by its changes to the H-2A guest worker program, an effort to keep alive their legal challenge to the new policy.
August 07, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor has urged a North Carolina federal court to nix a lawsuit lodged by farming businesses challenging a rule that revised how wages for temporary foreign agricultural workers are set, saying the businesses failed to adequately show the rule would harm them.
July 25, 2023
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a North Carolina federal judge not to expedite a hearing on a request by a coalition of farms and a visa agent for a halt to wage hikes for migrant workers, saying it came too late.
July 21, 2023
A group of farms and ranches and USA Farm Labor Inc. have asked a North Carolina federal judge to expedite a hearing on their request to block a wage rule for migrant workers they claim is an existential threat.
June 12, 2023
Attorneys for the federal government said Monday there is no justification for a bid by U.S. farms and ranches to preliminarily block an H-2A wage rule for migrant workers because the threat of imminent harm is too hypothetical.
May 30, 2023
Farms have pressed the North Carolina federal court to temporarily block the U.S. Department of Labor from enforcing its new wages for H-2A migrant workers, saying the department had illegally raised the salaries beyond what small businesses could afford.
April 11, 2023
A procurer of migrant workers and a group of farming companies sued the federal government in a bid to invalidate the U.S. Department of Labor's revised methodology for calculating wage rates for H-2A temporary visa-holding farmworkers.