Tom Roach outlined labor options at a recent Washington Growers League meeting. Growers worried about securing a work force for the coming year have few viable and legal alternatives to the federal foreign guest-worker program known as the H-2A program. The alternatives might work for those needing small numbers of workers, but don’t expect them to be a salvation to the potential labor shortage, says an attorney from  ­Washington State. The non-H-2A options to securing workers include student visas, putting prisoners to work, immigrant visas (green cards), and refugees. Tom Roach, a lawyer specializing in immigration law from Pasco, Washington, […]