{"id":370,"date":"2025-07-16T16:12:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/?p=370"},"modified":"2025-07-16T16:19:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:19:46","slug":"de-la-cruzes-introduces-bracero-2-0-program-to-strengthen-south-texas-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/de-la-cruzes-introduces-bracero-2-0-program-to-strengthen-south-texas-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"De La Cruzes Introduces Bracero 2.0 Program to Strengthen South Texas Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2025\/07\/14\/south-texas-monica-de-la-cruz-bracero-farms-immigration\/\">reported in the Texas Tribune<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De La Cruz, a Republican from Edinburg, introduced the Bracero Program 2.0 Act on Monday, a bill that makes changes to a temporary visa program for agriculture workers, known as H-2A visas. <br><br>The proposal would raise wages for program participants, streamline the application process for employers, and launch a regional pilot program that would allow workers to change jobs within a state without having to reapply for a visa. <br><br>&#8220;This will provide solutions desperately needed for hard-working immigrants. With workforce shortages challenging our communities, the Bracero Program 2.0 will bring stability and certainty for South Texas,&#8221; De La Cruz said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"color:#32373c\" class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-drop-cap drop-cap-letter gb-font-size-3 gb-block-drop-cap\"><div class=\"gb-drop-cap-text\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in the Texas Tribune: De La Cruz, a Republican from Edinburg, introduced the Bracero Program 2.0 Act on Monday, a bill that makes changes to a temporary visa program for agriculture workers, known as H-2A visas. The proposal would raise wages for program participants, streamline the application process for employers, and launch a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monicaforcongress.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}