For permanent or long-term positions, farmers may utilize EB-3 green cards (specifically the "Other Workers" category), which allow employers to sponsor foreign workers for permanent residency after obtaining a PERM labor certification. This pathway is less common and involves a longer, more complex process compared to the temporary H-2A program.
Key distinctions between these visa types include:
Duration: H-2A visas are temporary, generally limited to up to 10 months per contract, while EB-3 leads to permanent residency.
Requirements: H-2A employers must guarantee housing, transportation, and meals at no cost to the worker and pay at least the prevailing wage.
Eligibility: H-2A does not require higher education or specialized skills, making it accessible for unskilled labor, whereas EB-3 is for workers without bachelor's degrees who perform unskilled labor.
These are the same requirements for those in the domesic pool as well, but the domestic pool as citizens are eligible for other forms of safetl nets, anmd thus they tend to take that form of support, rather than work in the filds as domesttic workers in the fields. what the farmers get in these sesonal times when they make money, and that money has to make that money last until the next planting season comes around, along with twhat is need to plant the new seasons crop.
Are you willing to pay a drastic rise in your grocery bill?
If not, the cheap labor force from non citizens who are willing to work those jobs, because for them, they money they take home to their families, is how they get by from one season to the next.
This is not difficult to understand.
The afford ability problem is the direct cause of openng this nation's gates, and taking in people that every tax paying citizen has to pay for their existence in this nation, and the peole who are complaining about affordability, are the ones who are fighting against the deportation, to those foreign invaders.
I must say that you disappoint me, that these foreign workers are needed, and without them , everyone of those experiencing afforability issues are in place to benefoit the American citizens, who the maority have no desire to work in the fields in what is an natractive way for them to survive.
It's the reality, no matter how much you bleat about pauing a wage that the farmer cannot payy, which in turn makes him fail, and become yet another citizen that joins the unemployed, and the citizens then become ddependenent upon the big farmers, will be setting the prices, for they could carless f you survive. In fact, they would just as soon see you pass, because then you become one less uselles consumer that they costantly demand bot be savedm dor the sake ud sustainability.
This reality, seems to pass right over your head, becaus eyou do not understand economic, and the realities of them, being offered up because they do not wnat to see people perish.
What you offer up, are not well thought out, and therefore you fail to see that what you propose are not only uinworkable, but will in reality worsen the problems.