The top two issues concerning voters this year are inflation and illegal immigration — both of which remain stubbornly high under President Joe Biden. One overlooked factor in both of these crises has been the administration’s throttling of legal immigration.
For example, last year Biden enacted regulations that made it far more difficult for farmers to legally hire agricultural workers through the H-2A temporary agricultural visa program. Despite the fact that farmers are already required to pay H-2A workers above the average wage that U.S. farmhands make, Biden’s new rule is now forcing them to pay their employees as full-time truckers and construction workers if they spend as little as one minute driving a truck or mending a fence. Small growers reported that this policy change is costing them more than $100,000 each season.
