Ag plan may be added to farm bill

Inside Bay Area ^ | November 1, 2007 | Michael Doyle

[yorkie]

Farmers, immigrants and their Capitol Hill allies are hoping to graft an agricultural guest-worker plan onto the multibillion-dollar farm bill. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-San Francisco, hasn't yet decided whether to push the controversial guest-worker measure when the Senate considers the farm bill next week. Behind the scenes, though, proponents are counting votes and lobbying furiously.

"Now we're getting down to the nitty-gritty, where real hard decisions have to be made," said Dan Haley, a lobbyist for the California Strawberry Commission and other farm groups. "We can't wait around."

Tactically, this is a very tough call. The decisions made in coming days will shape the $288 billion farm bill, the future of 1.5 million illegal immigrants and the immigration political landscape for months or years to come.

Haley insisted "we can eke out" a victory if the Senate votes on the guest-worker plan. Others have doubts; no one takes this fight for granted.

On Wednesday, for instance, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund electronically urged members to contact lawmakers in support of guest-worker revisions. The alert asserted that the Senate "is expected to vote" on the proposal. In reality, the guest-worker amendment remains in flux.

"I just don't know if the votes are there to pass it; you have to do the vote count," said Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Calif., the chairman of the House horticulture and organic agriculture subcommittee. The farm bill pays for food stamps and subsidizes cotton, rice, wheat and corn growers. This year's proposal includes record spending for fruits and vegetables.

The Agjobs bill offers legal status and possible U.S. citizenship for 1.5 million illegal immigrant farm workers. It also streamlines an existing guest-worker program.

[yorkie]

Here we go, again

[yorkie]

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[Nathan Zachary]

Those crooked buggers are trying to sneak these illegals in any way they can, no matter how opposed the citizens of America are against any such bill.
If this means no farm bill, so be it. I’m opposed to farm subsidies anyway.

[Will88]

“The Agjobs bill offers legal status and possible U.S. citizenship for 1.5 million illegal immigrant farm workers. It also streamlines an existing guest-worker program.”

Precisely why does a farm worker bill have to offer legal status and a path to citizenship to illegal aliens rather than temporary work permits?? Just another amnesty scheme that must be defeated.

[gubamyster]

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[AmericanInTokyo]

bastards won’t give up, will they? I guess they need their asses whooped AGAIN!

[Ben Ficklin]

"Precisely why does a farm worker bill have to offer legal status and a path to citizenship to illegal aliens rather than temporary work permits?"

AgJobs is based on a negotiated compromise between the growers and the unions and it utilizes both temporary and permanent visas.

This AgJobs capitulation by the growers is considered to be a symbol of the fact that GOP was split on immigration reform and would never be able prevail, even though they controlled Congress.

The immigration hardliners were told that if they didn't support Bush's "amnesty to guest worker" they would get "amnesty onto the path" and that is what has happened.

If Mr Bill Gates wants his 200,000 H1B visas, he is going to have to sit town at the table with the AFL-CIO, the Communication Workers of America, and Wash-Tech, and agree to let the union organize the H1B workers.

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[doodad]

Geez. I really have to wonder what is the truth in all this and why they are so determined to fix what they have not even tried to work?

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[Reaganwuzthebest]

The Agjobs bill offers legal status and possible U.S. citizenship for 1.5 million illegal immigrant farm workers.

This won't pass, it'll be stopped by GOP Senators who will take the opportunity to remind voters once again that the democrats are nothing but a party of traitors determined to sell us out at any cost.

[org.whodat]

Precisely why does a farm worker bill have to offer legal status and a path to citizenship to illegal aliens rather than temporary work permits?? Just another amnesty scheme that must be defeated.

True and the moment he gets legal status, he will be off the farm and the farmer will be sneaking a new illegal in.

[Squat]

Maybe Dennis the lefty Kucinich is right, GW has gone MAD! It take one to know one. ALL of Congress and GW have sold out America. Who can we sue to get our country back? Wil the U.N. help?

[Delacon]

“The Agjobs bill offers legal status and possible U.S. citizenship for 1.5 million illegal immigrant farm workers. It also streamlines an existing guest-worker program.”

Call your senators.

[yorkie]

>>>“The Agjobs bill offers legal status and possible U.S. citizenship for 1.5 million illegal immigrant farm workers. It also streamlines an existing guest-worker program.”

Call your senators.<<<

And, if the people we have HIRED (by vote) and pay their salary (by taxes) don’t listen to the will of their constituents, then WE have the power to FIRE them in the polling booths, and we WILL do it.