A federal judge in Kentucky issued an injunction Monday against the Biden Administration’s expanded protections for farmworkers who enter the country on H-2A visas.
That program allows foreign workers to temporarily fill agriculture jobs in the United States.
A group of farmers filed a lawsuit in September arguing that the Department of Labor’s new regulations would allow H-2A visa holders to unionize, an ability the plaintiffs said could only be granted to them by Congress.
Attorneys general from Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and Alabama later filed a motion supporting the farmers in the lawsuit.
The judge sided with the plaintiffs, and his ruling temporarily blocks the expanded H-2A protections from taking effect in those four states.
