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Silwanus Tangkotta was working aboard a Taiwanese fishing boat in the remote Pacific last year, when a heavy wave slammed a rolling metal door onto his hand, crushing his middle and ring fingers.
Under pressure from worried farmers and hotel owners, the Trump administration is launching a program to streamline issuing visas for temporary, migrant workers to try to make sure fruits get picked,
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The Trump administration is launching a new visa program for migrant workers as farmers and hotel owners express concerns that their labor force is being threatened by the president’s mass deportation raids.
Rollins said more announcements would come soon from the Department of Labor regarding the U.S. temporary worker visa program.
As the Trump administration has doubled down on its hardline immigration agenda, behind the scenes senior Trump officials and the president himself have grappled with the consequences of that crackdown against a key portion of the workforce: migrant workers.
"I'm sure kicking folks off Medicaid and into farm work will go just swimmingly," one person said of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins' proposal.
BJP units in Haryana, Delhi and other states are compiling data on “pravasi” (migrant) Biharis, including the number of family members registered as voters in Bihar, their Assembly constituencies and polling booths.
Since January 2025, police raids on massage parlors have intensified, targeting immigrant women suspected of sex work. Amid nationwide protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), these workers — among ICE’s most systematically targeted — are largely excluded from community defense.