“Occasionally, a news story about “rotting crops” mentions that H-2A workers are available, but quotes growers as saying that going through legal channels of immigration is too cumbersome.”
And the article goes on to say they just hire illegals directly. If the feds started leading a few farm owners off in handcuffs this refusal to use the H-2A program would be less frequent.
The more we learn, the more we see how little about our immigration and visa programs is ever complied with or enforced.
ENFORCE!