The Yakama Nation of Washington has approved a guest-worker program to keep track of non-citizens who work on the reservation.

Former council member Wendell Hannigan came up with the idea out of concern for crime and the large number of migrant workers on the reservation. Most come to work on orchards, farms and vineyards.

Read more at Indianz.com.

Labor advocates and some prominent industry representatives agree that neither agribusiness nor government officials are ready to manage an expansion of the H-2A farmlabor visa program that could make California the country's biggest importer of legal guest workers.

Read more of this article by Susan Ferriss at the Sacramento Bee.