ANLA, PLANET urge Congress to maintain H-2B program

From the American Nursery & Landscape Association:

Joint Congressional testimony submitted last week by the American Nursery & Landscape Association (ANLA) and PLANET urged Congress to maintain the H-2B program and to fully consider the need for better visa options for job opportunities defined as “lesser-skilled,” as Congress works to modernize America’s immigration system.

The ANLA and PLANET statement was filed for a March 14 hearing by a House Education and the Workforce subcommittee. Specific to H-2B, the statement urged that two hostile Labor Department rulemaking initiatives should be prohibited from moving forward, and that the expired H-2B “returning worker exemption” should be made permanent.

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