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.
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.
H-2A Visa seasonal agricultural workers head out to pick cauliflower on a farm near Greenfield, Calif.
Agricultural worker Alicia Solano, 17, of Oaxaca, Mexico, culls rows of lettuce in Salinas.
Gerardo Rivera, of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, picks cauliflower along with other seasonal agricultural workers, holding H-2A Visas, on a farm near Greenfield.
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.
Seasonal agricultural workers, holding H-2A Visas, receive safety training from Octavio Vidales, left, supervisor, at their housing, a converted downtown hotel, in Salinas.
Arturo Galindo, left, and Manuel Madera, of Durango, Mexico, H-2A visa seasonal agricultural workers at their housing in Santa Maria, Calif.
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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