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Foreign guest worker programs

Farmers sound off on labor shortage; Zeldin pessimistic about a solution

by Mar 23, 2019
“There's never been a point where I've been less optimistic that anything is going to get done about anything,” Rep.Lee Zeldin told L.I. Farm Bureau members at the organization's annual 'Coffee with the Congressman' event Saturday morning in Calverton.

Citing looming labor crisis, Zeldin calls on Trump administration to expand foreign guest worker programs

by Mar 21, 2019
The Trump administration should immediately raise the annual cap a non-agricultural guest workers to allow local businesses to get the seasonal workforce they “desperately need," Rep. Lee Zeldin said Wednesday.