[Sept. 9, 2025]: Today, Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) issued a public comment thanking President Trump for his support of their lawsuit against the US Department of Labor’s (DOL) H-2A program. Under the Biden Administration, this program gave foreign farm workers more rights than American farm workers. Now, the DOL under President Trump is righting these wrongs by removing some of the burdensome and unlawful measures the Biden Administration imposed on America’s farmers.

SLF submitted a public comment supporting the DOL’s efforts to clean up the H-2A program. In the public comment SLF expressed, “The 2024 rule updated several provisions governing the H-2A program, a program which allows foreign workers to temporarily work on U.S. farms. Some of the key changes include workers’ rights to organize and engage in collective bargaining activity, visitor access to housing, seat belts in vehicles, and changes to wage rules.” SLF then pointed out that “[t]he 2024 rule was immediately halted by an avalanche of injunctions from different federal courts,” with SLF leading the charge.

SLF filed the lawsuit in Georgia federal court on behalf of Miles Berry Farm and the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association (GFVGA), arguing that the DOL’s program unfairly favored foreign farmworkers by giving them special rights, like the ability to form unions under the Immigration Reform and Control Act, that American farmworkers don’t have. Now, SLF and GFVGA are teaming up in their public comment to praise the Trump Administration’s reforms that will restore constitutional balance.

SLF President Kim Hermann said, “We are extremely thankful for President Trump’s support in our fight to protect American farmworkers. This should go without saying, but farmers are some of the hardest working people in this country. The work that they do impacts all of us, and we have to make sure that they are being treated fairly. This Biden-era program is anything but fair; it gives foreign workers benefits that don’t exist in the law, and we applaud the Department of Labor correcting this mistake and leveling the playing field for American farmers.”

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