All across America right now, it's harvest season.

Millions of acres of fruits and vegetables are ripening on the trees or in the ground.

And for anyone who's ever eaten a strawberry or an apple or a peach, one very important

question right now is, who is going to pick all this produce?

That is what you hear from every farmer you meet.

Every farmer you meet says, this is a problem, like there are enough workers to do this

work and they say it's getting worse.

That's reporter Andrea Shoe who covers labor at NPR.

And of course, you know, one way farmers have long dealt with this is by hiring undocumented

immigrant laborers.

For example, the agricultural department estimates about 40% of crop workers are undocumented.

However, we are seeing a steady increase of what's called the use of the H2A visa.

And that is NPR's Hementa Bustillo who covers politics and she's talking about the government's

H2A visa program, also known as a guess worker program.

You can think of it as the government sanctioned labor solution for farmers looking to hire

foreign workers for a few months at a time.

And as Andrea and Hementa found during their recent reporting trip, this program, these

workers are becoming increasingly important.

We saw van fools of H2A workers being transported to the work site.

We toured a hotel that was converted into an H2A worker dorm with over a thousand beds.

This is the indicator for plan of money.

I'm Adrian Ma and this is not the government's first attempt to create a program to address

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