GAOs study found that. when growers made timely applications. the Department of Labor still missed statutory deadlines 40 percent of the time. The bureaucracy grinds to a halt sometimes because it doesnt understand the needs in the field. and sometimes because it doesnt want to supply the workforce. Current H2A has been completely ineffective as a means of obtaining temporary and seasonal workers. supplying only about 24.000 out of the 1.6 million farm workers necessary on an annual basis. In the 1996 immigration law. and in appropriations over recent years. Congress has made it a priority to secure our borders and crack down on illegal immigrants. That is exactly what we want and what our citizens want. But as a result. serious spot shortages of farm labor are multiplying from Florida to New England.
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