Guestworkers
"By shutting off illegal immigration and resisting the temptations of a new guest-worker program, the nation would force growers to make do with the labor supply that currently exists - and to do whatever it takes to recruit and retain workers. When the Bracero Program was finally eliminated in 1964, for instance, growers of Bracero-dependent crops had to increase wages for farm workers 40 percent."
A Wish List for the State Department's Management of the Summer Work Travel Program
Topics: J-1 Nonimmigrant Visa Program
Jerry Kammer Discusses J-1 Visas on NewsHour (PBS - 8/17/12)
Jerry Kammer discusses the J-1 visa and the State Department's Summer Work Travel Program during a PBS NewsHour segment on August 17, 2012.