Hispanic Affairs Project, et al v. R. Alexander Acosta, et al

  1. November 14, 2019

    Foreign Herders Can't Work Long Term On Guest-Worker Visa

    Ranchers who rely on migrant guest workers to fill shepherding and herding positions will soon lose the ability to keep those workers for longer-term labor, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Thursday in a new policy memo.

  2. November 07, 2018

    DC Circ. Won't Curb Discovery In Shepherds' H-2A Visa Suit

    The D.C. Circuit on Wednesday refused to curb discovery in a lawsuit brought by a group of foreign sheepherders challenging the federal government's practice of handing out temporary work visas for longer-term labor.

  3. August 17, 2018

    DC Circ. Revives Shepherds' Challenge To H-2A Practices

    The D.C. Circuit partly revived a suit Friday brought by a group of livestock herders challenging the government's practice of issuing temporary visas for longer-term labor.

  4. March 19, 2018

    DC Circ. Told To Ignore Shepherds' H-2A Visa Rule Challenge

    The federal government and a pair of ranch advocate groups voiced their opposition on Friday to a D.C. Circuit challenge brought by organizations representing foreign-born shepherds that claim the government is illegally issuing the shepherds H-2A nonimmigrant temporary work visas even though their work is more permanent.

  5. January 24, 2018

    Shepherds Fight H-2A Visa At DC Circ. In Wage Dispute

    The H-2A nonimmigrant visas that allow foreign-born shepherds to work in the U.S. are unlawful because the available positions represent a permanent labor shortage and are thus not temporary, and that they open those shepherds up to abuse by their employers, asserted organizations representing the workers in a brief they filed Tuesday with the D.C. Circuit.

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