The Department of Homeland Security recently joined with the Department of Labor to reform rules for hiring temporary agriculture laborers in an effort to cut back on the red tape and delays associated with agricultural worker visas which have threatened a steady supply of critical labor. Security Debrief contributor David Venturella spoke with Government Executive magazine about the reforms, praising the step is long overdue but perhaps not going far enough.

“It seems as though some of the new requirements create an extra burden and are somewhat penalizing, which defeats the purpose of encouraging more people to use it,” Venturella tells reporter Katherine McIntire Peters.