The Trump administration is rushing to import more migrant farmworkers to fix an agricultural labour crisis that its own immigration policies created.
Federal officials have overhauled the H-2A temporary agricultural visa programme, which allows US employers to hire foreign workers for seasonal farm jobs, cutting minimum wage requirements by as much as £5.40 ($7) per hour in some states and allowing employers to deduct housing costs from workers' pay for the first time in the programme's history.
