More than 60 agriculture groups are asking the Biden Administration to exempt agricultural workers from the travel restrictions from South Africa. The restrictions were implemented in response to COVID-19 and the new omicron variant. The farm groups claim the H-2A workers are critically important for the production of food. Nearly 7,000 guestworkers from South Africa travel to the U.S. each year to work in agriculture.
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