Friends of Farmworkers Inc. is a Pennsylvania-based, nonprofit legal services organization whose mission is to improve the living and working conditions of indigent or distressed farmworkers, mushroom workers, food-processing workers, workers from immigrant and migrant communities and their families.
Over the last several years, one of the areas of critical legal work of the organization has been in legal advocacy on behalf of workers in industries using “H-2B” non-immigrant temporary non-agricultural workers, which in Pennsylvania has principally been the landscaping industry. In the last several years, Pennsylvania has grown to be one of the largest users of the H-2B program for landscaping workers in the country. The H-2B program has grown in size since the mid-1990s from a relatively small program to a much more significant one in terms of employer demand. Many of the issues critical to future programs arising out of “comprehensive immigration reform” providing for employment authorized immigrant workers are raised in the context of the H-2B program. The need for such advocacy nationally is particularly critical because since 1996 congressional appropriation riders have barred federal Legal Services Corp. funded legal services programs from representing H-2B workers.
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