Posted on 10/30/2019 4:23:28 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A bipartisan group of House members revealed an immigration bill to prop up the dwindling agricultural labor base by regularizing the status of foreign-born workers.
The bill, presented by Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.), Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.), Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), and Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) has the support of 24 Democrats and 20 Republicans.
“The success of our farmers, growers and producers is essential not only for our economy but for our national security," said Diaz-Balart, the lead Republican on the bill. "For far too long, we’ve suffered from a broken H2A visa system, making it difficult for farmers to hire the workforce necessary to provide to the American people."
The bill would allow foreign agricultural workers who've worked in the sector for at least 180 days over the past two years to request five-year visas for themselves, their spouses and their minor children.
In order to renew their visas after five years, workers would have to prove they've worked at least 100 days in agriculture per year.
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Bush League Republicans are hell bent on turning the USA into North Mexico.
We have to replace them with MAGA candidates.
Nothing more permanent then a guest worker.
Especially after Mamacita drops Anchor Baby #1.
We’ve only got about 40 million people here now from prior phony programs like this.
Oddly, I remember when Americans farmed their own land.
Like my family for the previous 280 years.
That wall is scaring the hell out of them.
NO! HELL NO!
We have enough legal and illegal aliens here now.
Why should they get any long-term status?
Even if we did need them we can decide whether to let them in each year.
The bill would also allow a path to legal permanent status – which itself grants a path to citizenship – for previously-undocumented agricultural workers who pay a $1,000 fine.
We have let millions of illegal Ag workers in.
And guess what. They come in and don’t work
in Ag. The work in construction.
The let them in in Ag work is a con.
No bipartisan nada!
Chain gangs.
Tens of thousands of men in prison watching tv and lifting weights.
Have them pick lettuce.
Bring back the Bracero Program.
They can’t get a big amnesty, so they are trying for it in smaller bites.
The old “jobs Americans won’t do” sh*t. Let’s talk if EVERY freeloading welfare bum and others able to work actually work and the unemployment rate is less than 1%.
What’s wrong with using the umpteen gazillion immigrants already here? Seriously. This is an invasion fully supported by the ****tards we put in office - BOTH R’s & D’s!
Five years eh?
That is a familiar number...
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/when-apply-us-citizenship-46704.html
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bipartisan = uniparty.
Agreed - we need agricultural workers, mostly in the fields and groved out west.
Here is my solution: using private agricultural labor companies headquartered in Mexico to hire workers, provide transportation, sign contracts with farmers or farmers’ associations, and bring workers in for specific time periods. Farmers will house and feed. Workers are paid only a portion of their agreed upon wages with the remainder paid when they return to Mexico at the end of their contract. Next year repeat the process. No families and contracts only cover times for planting and harvesting. That is the idea, need to work out details. Back in the 50’s there was a similar program called the “bracera program” that came to an end with unions organizing workers. Nothing will work with union involvement!
correction, “groved” should be “groves.”
“The bill would allow foreign agricultural workers who’ve worked in the sector for at least 180 days over the past two years to request five-year visas for themselves, their spouses and their minor children.”
So does this mean their family members also qualify for all kinds of welfare?
This is unnecessary because agriculture is continuing to automate.
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