Tuesday, July 15, 2025

GET ME REWRITE: Texas GOP attempts to clean up mess created by Trump's nativist immigration policies

 
Headline:  The Texas Tribune, 7/14/2025

U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz filed legislation Monday that would revamp a temporary worker program to help ease farm labor shortages largely provoked by the Trump administration’s ramped-up immigration raids targeting undocumented workers. 
De La Cruz, a Republican from Edinburg, introduced the Bracero Program 2.0 Act on Monday, a bill that makes changes to a temporary visa program for agriculture workers, known as H-2A visas. 
The proposal would raise wages for program participants, streamline the application process for employers, and launch a regional pilot program that would allow workers to change jobs within a state without having to reapply for a visa. 
"This will provide solutions desperately needed for hard-working immigrants. With workforce shortages challenging our communities, the Bracero Program 2.0 will bring stability and certainty for South Texas," De La Cruz said in a statement. Farmworkers have been among those targeted by immigration enforcement officials since the Trump administration intensified deportation efforts.  [emphasis added]

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