Mr. President. the purpose of this amendment is simply to restore existing laws and regulations governing the H2 temporary foreign worker provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act. The United States has long had a limited program through which temporary workers are allowed to enter the country on an H2 nonimmigrant visa. Petitions for these workers are reviewed by the Department of Labor. which must certify that U.S. workers are not available and that the employment of aliens will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of other similarly employed American workers. From 1973 through 1976. H2 admissions averaged a little more than 30.000 workers annually. 12.000 of whom were agricultural workers.
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