{"id":22277,"date":"2019-12-09T14:01:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T19:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22277"},"modified":"2020-02-21T06:48:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T11:48:16","slug":"amnesty-farm-bill-foreign-workers-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/12\/09\/amnesty-farm-bill-foreign-workers-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Your Representative Support the Agricultural Amnesty?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week, the House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 5038 \u2013 the Farm Workforce Modernization Act<\/a>. This bill is a massive amnesty that will give at least <\/em>1.5 million illegal aliens a pathway to citizenship in exchange for almost nothing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FAIR is fearful that this amnesty may have a reasonable chance of advancing in the Senate given bipartisan support. This is because the agribusiness lobby \u2013 one of America\u2019s largest<\/a> \u2013 is deeply entrenched with members of both parties. They continue to reject modernization and mechanization in favor of massive farmworker amnesties that do nothing <\/em>to solve the problem facing agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agribusiness already has an unlimited guest worker program to\nimport cheap foreign labor in the H-2A visa. They refuse to use it because it\nis still cheaper and easier for them to hire illegal aliens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does your representative support the latest agricultural\namnesty? Below is a list of this amnesty\u2019s 28 Democrat and 25 Republican\nco-sponsors. The lead author of the bill is Representative Zoe Lofgren\n(D-CA-19), who chairs the Judiciary Committee\u2019s Immigration and Citizenship\nsubcommittee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats<\/p>\n\n\n\n