Items Tagged with 'H-2A guestworker visa program for migrant farmworkers'

More than two weeks after signing a bill on farmworker residency, Governor Gavin Newsom’s office has issued the administration’s first comments on the legislation.

California may grant permanent residency to undocumented ag laborers under a new law that lays the groundwork for Gov. Gavin Newsom to broker a deal with the Biden administration to identify farmworkers as essential and permit them to work and stay in the U.S.

Newsom has signed a bill that lays the groundwork for a permanent residency program for undocumented farmworkers.