Discredited labor activist Rosalinda Guillén of Community to Community Development recently repeated false and offensive attacks on farms hiring guest workers via the federal H-2A visa program Farms have been turning to the expensive and highly-regulated program as a last resort to help cover labor gaps resulting from the worsening farm labor shortage. Enrique Gastelum, a former farmworker who’s now CEO of the Worker And Farmer Labor Association (WAFLA), joins Dillon to discuss not just how wildly inaccurate Guillén’s suggestions are that the guest worker program is unregulated and bad for workers, but also how offensive her comments are that compare the program to a “quasi-slave labor force.”
