Last month, the Trump administration Labor Department slapped a hold on Biden administration rules on H-2A visas, which allow U.S. farmers to hire foreign workers when they are unable to fill their jobs with Americans.

The H-2A rules were already stringent regarding requirements about pay and providing room and board and transportation to workers.

But the Biden administration, under the thumb of union pressure, added additional stringencies, allowing guest workers "collective action," giving unions access to pitch their line onsite and making it more difficult to fire workers.

Given that the whole idea of the H-2A is to provide a legal venue for farmers to employ foreign workers to do work in agriculture that Americans generally don't want to do, the H-2A visa provides an important venue to avoid employing illegal immigrants.

As things now stand, about 40 percent of the farm workforce are foreign-born illegal immigrants, and about another 20 percent foreign-born legal immigrants. So the Labor........

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