Temporary workers
In this image for the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, a blackboard at Lindy's Seafood Inc. in Woolford, Md., displays prices for crabs, April 21, 2021. The company relies on temporary workers from Mexico hired through the U.S. Department of Labor's H-2B visa program to help process crabs during high season. The government authorized more than 12,000 H-2B workers nationwide in 2019-20 for jobs at seafood plants. (Carmen Molina Acosta/University of Maryland via AP)
COVID-19 protections not offered to migrant seafood workers

By Vanessa Sánchez Pulla, Trisha Ahmed, Brittany Nicole Gaddy, Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi, Carmen Molina Acosta, Sophia Sorensen And Aadit Tambe/The Howard Center For Investigative Journalism May. 12, 2021 12:36 PM EDT

Bartender Denis Angelov, of Provincetown, Mass., left, serves sparking wine to Julie Skaller, left, and her husband David Skaller, right, both of Brewster, N.Y., at Tin Pan Alley restaurant, Tuesday, April 6, 2021, in Provincetown. Hotels, restaurants and other businesses in tourist destinations are warning that hiring challenges during the coronavirus pandemic could force them to pare back operating hours or curtail services just as they’re eyeing a bounce-back summer. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Help Wanted: In pandemic, worry about finding summer workers

By Philip Marcelo Apr. 26, 2021 01:01 AM EDT

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Biden OKs more foreign seasonal workers as economy improves

By Ben Fox Apr. 20, 2021 01:38 PM EDT

Demonstrators chant as they declare victory and celebrate the passage of the New York state budget with the ending their hunger strike that lasted 23 days, Wednesday, April 7, 2021, in the Manhattan borough of New York. New Yorkers, regardless of immigration status, could apply for help from a new $2.4 billion rental relief program that will offer 12 months of overdue rent and utilities, three prospective months of rent and a year of eviction protection. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
New York to offer COVID aid to immigrants excluded earlier

By Marina Villeneuve And Karen Matthews Apr. 08, 2021 03:11 PM EDT

New Hampshire to offer vaccines to all adults within weeks

By Holly Ramer Mar. 18, 2021 10:30 AM EDT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — All New Hampshire adults will be eligible for the coronavirus vaccine in a matter of weeks, Gov. Chris Sununu said Thursday. ...

President Joe Biden closes the folder after signing an executive order relating to U.S. supply chains, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Biden lifts Trump-era ban blocking legal immigration to US

By Julie Watson Feb. 24, 2021 07:59 PM EST

Farmers sue state over COVID-19 rules for migrant workers

By Nicholas K. Geranios Feb. 02, 2021 11:49 AM EST
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Two farm groups are suing the state of Washington for failing to revise emergency regulations that seek to protect migrant farmworkers...

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, in West Palm Beach, Fla. Trump is returning to Washington after visiting his Mar-a-Lago resort. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Trump extends visa ban; court clears health insurance rule

By Elliot Spagat Dec. 31, 2020 05:58 PM EST

An Army National Guard soldier processes a line of cars full of people getting COVID-19 tests on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)
New Mexico to meet deadline for sending out relief checks

By Susan Montoya Bryan And Cedar Attanasio Dec. 23, 2020 12:19 PM EST

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House, in Washington. On Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, a U.S. judge in California struck down two Trump administration rules designed to drastically curtail the number of visas issued each year to skilled foreign workers. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Judge throws out Trump rules limiting skilled-worker visas

By Sophia Tareen Dec. 01, 2020 07:34 PM EST

Illinois Institute of Technology student Wofai Ewa, originally from Nigeria, poses for a portrait Friday, Sept. 18, 2020, at the institute's library in Chicago. America was always considered the premiere destination for international students, with the promise of top-notch universities and work opportunities. Yet, 2016 marked the start of an alarming decline of new enrollees, something expected to continue with fresh rules limiting student visas, competition from other countries and a haphazard coronavirus response. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Foreign students show less zeal for US since Trump took over

By Sophia Tareen Oct. 25, 2020 11:13 AM EDT

Department of Homeland Security Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on "Threats to the Homeland" Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Joshua Roberts/Pool via AP)
Trump administration to sharply limit skilled-worker visas

By Ben Fox Oct. 06, 2020 03:07 PM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2017, file photo, demonstrators sit in the concourse at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle, Wash., with a sign that reads "We are America," as more than 1,000 people gather to protest the order signed the day before by President Donald Trump that restricts immigration to the U.S. A federal judge on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, temporarily lifted a visa ban on a large number of work permits, undercutting a measure that the Trump administration says will protect American jobs in a pandemic-wracked economy. (Genna Martin/seattlepi.com via AP)
Judge blocks large parts of temporary work visa ban

By Elliot Spagat Oct. 01, 2020 09:07 PM EDT

An employee is protected by a plexiglass shield while processing a skier at the reopening of Arapahoe Basin Ski Resort, which closed in mid-March to help in the effort to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, in a Wednesday, May 27, 2020 file photo, in Keystone, Colo. An executive order signed y President Donald Trump that temporarily bans a wide variety of foreign visas has thrown another obstacle in the path of ski resorts as they try to hire enough temporary workers to fill crucial jobs in the era of COVID-19. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
Ski resorts struggle to hire amid Trump's student visa ban

By Thomas Peipert Sep. 30, 2020 04:20 PM EDT

Agriculture workers risk safety and health during pandemic

By Frank Hernandez Of Midwest Center For Investigative Reporting. Sep. 26, 2020 01:01 AM EDT
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Pedro Cabrera Flores, 70, had spent the past eight summers packing green beans into cans in Gillett, Wisconsin. In order to be hired...

Vermont House OKs stimulus checks for immigrant workers

Sep. 09, 2020 12:50 PM EDT
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont House has given preliminary approval to $5 million in stimulus payments amid the coronavirus pandemic for residents who did...

FILE - In this May 6, 2020 file photo a statue of Barbaro is silhouetted at the entrance of Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. The Trump administration’s immigration squeeze and the hardships caused by the coronavirus pandemic threaten to leave the horse racing industry short of workers, racing officials warn as they prepare for a reconfigured Kentucky Derby. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, file)
Ahead of Kentucky Derby, worker shortage looms for trainers

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn Aug. 30, 2020 08:27 AM EDT

Mark Lazarus, the president and owner of Lazarus Entertainment Group, poses for a picture, Thursday, July 9, 2020, in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Businesses in beach communities and mountain getaways up and down the East Coast are fretting about a shortage of workers as the summer season picks up steam. The concern comes after the Trump administration announced in June that it was extending a ban on green cards and adding many temporary visas to the freeze, including J-1 cultural exchange visas and H-2B visas. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
As beach towns open, businesses are short foreign workers

By Michael Casey Jul. 12, 2020 01:02 AM EDT

Karan Murgai, an IT management consultant for a multinational based in Dallas, poses for a photograph next to then portrait of his father Satish Murgai, in his Delhi house, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, June 30, 2020. Murgai came to Delhi in March this year after his father died. Murgai and at least 1,000 others like him, whose U.S. visas are tied to their jobs in the U.S., are now stranded in India, after an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that suspends applications for H-1B and other high-skilled work visas from abroad. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
First coronavirus then Trump order split Indian families

By Emily Schmall And Sophia Tareen Jul. 03, 2020 01:04 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press Jul. 01, 2020 03:09 PM EDT
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ June 30 The Wall Street...