There is no reason for food insecurity in this country. To that is the understanding that every American household has enough food for a fair price. A fair price doesn't mean cheap. The food assistance programs would have to be adjusted if there is going to be respect for the food laborers in the field and their need for a good wage and fair treatment.
Graham and Manchin sat around on a house boat in DC Harbor somewhere sipping moonshine and dreaming up how to bring cheap labor back again.
Senators Graham & Manchin Introduce Anti-Worker, Anti-Immigrant Bill
to Radically Expand the Flawed and Exploitative H-2A Program
On July 22, 2021,
Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) (click here) introduced a bill, S.2443, that would radically expand the flawed H-2A temporary agricultural
worker visa program, causing harm to countless U.S. and foreign workers in agriculture and
other sectors. The bill would end the requirement that H-2A jobs be “temporary or seasonal”
and expand the definition of agricultural labor in the H-2A program to new industries such as
wild seafood processing, fish farming, care of horses, and potentially landscaping. The dangers
of the Graham-Manchin proposal are clear: A massive influx of captive temporary visa workers
in these sectors would place downward pressure on wages and working conditions for U.S.
workers and guestworkers alike. The bill fails to address the most urgently needed immigration
reform: a path to immigration status and citizenship for undocumented workers in these sectors....
