1. United States
2. N.J.
3. Letter

Please champion the U.S. Farmworker Protection Act (H.R. 7541), which will cap the number of H-2A visas at 400,000 annually, helping to protect local jobs and curb human rights violations. The runaway growth of the H-2A program has been a disaster for US farm workers’ wages and jobs. We’ve had local workers tell us about being illegally fired to make way for H-2A guest workers, resulting in gender and age discrimination. Additionally, this expansion has resulted in numerous cases of human trafficking, forced labor, sexual violence, wage theft, unsafe housing conditions, and other human rights abuses. Currently, the H-2A agricultural guest worker program is uncapped and has ballooned in size — growing more than 7 times larger than the number of visas issued in 2005. This common-sense legislation would cap the number of H-2A visas at 400,000 annually. Please vote yes on this bill to support the workers who are putting food on America’s tables today. Thanks!