Low Wage Migration: Present Challenges, Future Supply

The aim of the project is to inform debate on immigration reform, with a focus on addressing the challenges of implementation SUMMARY The Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of Foreign Service hosted a roundtable in March of 2014 on the future of the migration of low-wage workers. [...] ii The Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of Foreign Service hosted a roundtable in March of 2014 on the future of the migration of low-wage workers. [...] There are laws regulating the H-2A program to ensure the rights and obligations of the workers and employers which the DOL can enforce. [...] Some of these labor problems trace their roots back to the time when the H-2A and H- 2B were separated out from the original H-2 visa, others to the period of the Clinton administration when the wage requirement for the H-2B visa was lowered to make the visa program more competitive with unauthorized workers. [...] There is some agreement about the value of rationalizing the H-2B program as part of the larger immigration system and to better serve the needs of the economy.