I didn't think I had to specify this.
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Originally Posted by Méo
I would like to see you elaborate on your ''myth'' to many U.S. farmers.
And I wonder why this has been created a long time ago...
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The H-2A temporary agricultural program establishes a means for agricultural employers who anticipate a shortage of domestic workers to bring non-immigrant foreign workers to the U.S. to perform agricultural labor or services of a temporary or seasonal nature.[1] In 2015 there were approximately 140,000 total temporary agricultural workers under this visa program. Terms of work can be as short as a month or two or as long as 10 months in most cases, although there are some special procedures that allow workers to stay longer than 10 months.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-2A_visa
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The reality is that reports of deportations has farmers scared like I’ve never seen before.
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“If they just stopped contributing to the workforce, we’d have a major crisis,”
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https://www.theatlantic.com/business...ations/529008/ |
So let me rephrase this:
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Originally Posted by August
"Jobs that nobody wants"
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Jobs that are the least appealing.''
Agricultural jobs offer you:
- minimum wage
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A completely different lifestyle with a lot more than 8 hours/day, very few entertainment of any kind, limited access to a lot of services (internet, public places, medical center, etc.)
- Hard and repetitive physical work.
- Less chance of finding a life partner (for city citizen at least).
and the list could probably go on...
And this is nothing new, since the begining of the industrialization populations began quitting rural areas for cities in the hope of a better tomorrow. So it's no wonder that many agricultural employers have a hard time finding the sufficient workforce and turn overseas to fill the gap and
probably put a lot of pression on governments to accept it.
Personally I've never known (or heard of) anyone whose dream was to work on a farm (unless they inherit from their parents).
Of course if I had really no choice I would do it, but it would take a huge crisis I guess, which is something ''nobody wants.''