The H-2A Visa temporary agricultural program establishes a means for agricultural employers who anticipate a shortage of domestic workers to bring nonimmigrant foreign workers to the U.S. The crew comes from Mexico, making a base wage of $12.56 an hour or more depending on how much they pick.
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Domestic agricultural workers wait for a bus to take them to fields to pick produce, in Salinas, Calif. Domestic workers compete with H-2A Visa crews from northern Mexico.
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H-2A Visa seasonal agricultural workers head out to pick cauliflower on a farm near Greenfield, Calif.
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Agricultural worker Alicia Solano, 17, of Oaxaca, Mexico, culls rows of lettuce in Salinas.
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Gerardo Rivera, of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, picks cauliflower along with other seasonal agricultural workers, holding H-2A Visas, on a farm near Greenfield.
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Oscar Zaragoza, of San Luis Colorado, Sonora, Mexico, along with other seasonal H-2A Visa agricultural workers, load recently picked cauliflower on a farm near Greenfield.
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Seasonal agricultural workers, holding H-2A Visas, receive safety training from Octavio Vidales, left, supervisor, at their housing, a converted downtown hotel, in Salinas.
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Arturo Galindo, left, and Manuel Madera, of Durango, Mexico, H-2A visa seasonal agricultural workers at their housing in Santa Maria, Calif.
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Mexican H-2A Visa seasonal agricultural workers Alfredo Betancourt, 25, of Mexicali, Baja California, Ivan Perez, of Mexicali, and Angel Pompa, 28, of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, at their housing, a converted downtown hotel, in Salinas.
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