February 11, 2010 – The Wall Street Journal

U.S. farmers will find it harder to get visas for foreign workers under a new Labor Department rule issued Thursday.

Growers estimate that the vast majority of field workers are foreign-born, although only a fraction of those—86,000 in the last fiscal year—received visas under the program affected by the new rule.

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