WASHINGTON, May 19 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith issued the following news release:
U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today stressed the need for the U.S. Department of Labor to improve its handling of an H-2A visa program now plagued by serious delays and regulatory challenges that disrupted plantings, harvests, and year-round agricultural operations in Mississippi and around the country.
Hyde-Smith discussed the H-2A situation with Acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling at a Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee hearing (https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-review-of-the-presidents-fiscal-year-2027-budget-request-for-the-department-of-labor) to review the Labor Department's FY20...