Trump Ag Sec thinks farm workers are overpaid

So many despicable assholes, in the federal government, these days. You've undoubtedly noticed that as well.

In other words, to appease “people who are anti-immigrant” while also increasing the supply of farm labor, (Agriculture Secretary Sonny) Perdue wants to give farm owners increased access to a program that grants foreign workers temporary resident status without a path to citizenship. 

But there’s a problem, Perdue added. Under the federal guest-worker program that has supplied US farms with labor for decades, known as H2A, there’s a mechanism that prevents farmers from paying guest workers wages below the prevailing rate in the surrounding area, which would undermine wages for other nearby workers well.

This “adverse effect wage rate,” calculated for each state by the US Department of Labor using USDA surveys, is just too high, Perdue insisted. - Mother Jones