Trump Cancels Biden Rule Granting Union Rights To Foreign Farmworkers
The rule gave special union rights to foreign farm workers brought in on H-2A visas. It allowed them to organize and make demands as a group. But there was a stunning catch that reveals everything you need to know about the previous administration’s priorities.
American farm workers are legally excluded from those very same rights under federal law. Biden’s team created a policy that deliberately gave foreign nationals a legal advantage denied to our own citizens working in the same fields.
Thankfully, some leaders saw the injustice and refused to stand for it. Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach led a group of 17 states to sue the Biden administration, calling the rule what it was: an America Last policy.
President Donald Trump has thrown out a federal rule from former President Joe Biden that had sought to give collective bargaining rights to foreign farm workers while excluding American farm workers from such benefits.
The rule, proposed by the Biden administration in 2024, would have allowed foreign H-2A visa workers — those foreign workers who are hired on United States farms — to secure collective bargaining rights that are not afforded to American farm workers.
The courts agreed with Kobach. Two different federal judges found that the rule was a clear violation of federal law, a “not so sneaky” attempt to create rights for foreigners that Congress never approved. Now, President Trump has officially thrown this absurd rule on the scrap heap. His Labor Department has formally suspended the policy, ending the two-tiered system that put Americans second.
This is more than just a policy reversal. It is a restoration of sanity and a promise kept. With common-sense leadership back in the White House, the government is once again focused on its most important job: protecting the rights and interests of the American people first.
American farm workers are legally excluded from those very same rights under federal law. Biden’s team created a policy that deliberately gave foreign nationals a legal advantage denied to our own citizens working in the same fields.
Thankfully, some leaders saw the injustice and refused to stand for it. Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach led a group of 17 states to sue the Biden administration, calling the rule what it was: an America Last policy.
President Donald Trump has thrown out a federal rule from former President Joe Biden that had sought to give collective bargaining rights to foreign farm workers while excluding American farm workers from such benefits.
The rule, proposed by the Biden administration in 2024, would have allowed foreign H-2A visa workers — those foreign workers who are hired on United States farms — to secure collective bargaining rights that are not afforded to American farm workers.
The courts agreed with Kobach. Two different federal judges found that the rule was a clear violation of federal law, a “not so sneaky” attempt to create rights for foreigners that Congress never approved. Now, President Trump has officially thrown this absurd rule on the scrap heap. His Labor Department has formally suspended the policy, ending the two-tiered system that put Americans second.
This is more than just a policy reversal. It is a restoration of sanity and a promise kept. With common-sense leadership back in the White House, the government is once again focused on its most important job: protecting the rights and interests of the American people first.
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