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-Ag Progress Section, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 11,2001
WASHINGTON, D.C. An
immigration reform bill intro
duced recently by Sen. Larry
Craig (R-Idaho) could be valu
able in providing legal workers
for farmers and ranchers who
need an additional labor force,
according to the American Farm
Bureau Federation.
“This bill represents an im
portant step forward in the long
running debate on farmworker
immigration reform,” said
AFBF President Bob Stallman.
“Everyone knows farmers are
struggling right now, and ensur
ing farm employers a legal labor
force they can afford to employ
will help these farmers survive
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Farm Bureau Hails Immigration Reform Bill
until the farm economy im
proves.
“Passage of this bill will bene
fit farm employers, farmworkers
and the farm economy,” Stall
man said. “It will reform the
temporary worker visa program
for agriculture, the so-called H
-2a program, by streamlining the
application procedure and
making the requirement for im
migrant employee wages uni
form with temporary
immigration programs for
nurses, computer programmers
and food processing workers.”
The Agricultural Jobs, Op
portunities and Benefits Secur
ity Act II (S. 1161) closely
parallels a bill Sen. Craig intro-
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ber 2000.
Sen. Craig’s new bill would
offer illegal farmworkers an op
portunity to gain a legal work
status. They would be required
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to work in agriculture for about
ISO days per year in four out of
six years. Once that work obliga
tion has been completed, work
ers could apply for residency
status to allow them to remain in
the U.S. or travel freely between
the U.S. and their home country.
A similar worker applying for
residency while in Mexico would
have to wait about six years for
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his application to be processed,
and would be ineligible to work
while waiting.
Stallman said, “Jtie Craig bill
will make these workers legally
eligible to perform a vital service
to a basic American industry;
otherwise, they’d have to wait in
Mexico for their number to come
up, while we need them to work
on American farms.”
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