White House Seeks To Lower Farmworker Pay To Help Agriculture Industry

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NPR April 10, 2020

New White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is working with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to see how to reduce wage rates for foreign guest workers on American farms, in order to help U.S. farmers struggling during the coronavirus, according to U.S. officials and sources familiar with the plans.
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It's unclear how the reforms would be made, including whether they would be taken through executive action or through the federal regulatory process. But Perdue has pushed for adjusting what is known as the adverse effect wage rate, which prevents farmers using the H-2A program from paying all workers — U.S. and guest workers — wages below the prevailing rates in the surrounding area.
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U.S. farmers say they have had to cut back on production because of the high number of restaurant and hotel closures. Cory Lunde, a spokesman for the Western Growers Association, said U.S. farmers are fighting to keep "our farms afloat in the face of the near-total collapse of the food-service sector" and more recent slowdown in the retail market.
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[Chainfire]

1. Robbing the workers

to help the Farmers. It is an old tradition in his state, in the heart of the old Confederacy, that goes back a couple of hundred years.

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2. If they were all slaves, we wouldn't have these problems.

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3. Trump was overheard asking...

"Well, why can't we have slavery?"