Democrats Tie Amnesty to Labor Giveaway to Agriculture Employers
8 Mar 2021
The Democrat-led Farm Workforce Modernization Act 0f 2021 offers a flood of cheap labor in agriculture and provides a pathway to citizenship to 1.5 million illegal farm workers.
GOP support for the bill would be a suicide pact, Rosemary Jenks, policy director at NumbersUSA, told Breitbart News.
“It would be a ridiculous short-term view of their own personal self-interest they should be looking five years out, 10 years out, but they’re looking at tomorrow and the 2022 election,” she said. “They will be accepting the end of two-party government,” she added
So far, the bill’s lone GOP cosponsor is Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), who owns orchards in Washington state.
The Farm Workforce Modernization Act has been reintroduced to the House of Representatives by co-sponsors Zoe Lofgren of California and Washington state s Dan Newhouse.
Democrats Tie Amnesty to Labor Giveaway to Agriculture Employers
8 Mar 2021
The Democrat-led Farm Workforce Modernization Act 0f 2021 offers a flood of cheap labor in agriculture and provides a pathway to citizenship to 1.5 million illegal farm workers.
GOP support for the bill would be a suicide pact, Rosemary Jenks, policy director at NumbersUSA, told Breitbart News.
“It would be a ridiculous short-term view of their own personal self-interest they should be looking five years out, 10 years out, but they’re looking at tomorrow and the 2022 election,” she said. “They will be accepting the end of two-party government,” she added
So far, the bill’s lone GOP cosponsor is Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), who owns orchards in Washington state.
The Farm Workforce Modernization Act has been reintroduced to the House of Representatives by co-sponsors Zoe Lofgren of California and Washington state s Dan Newhouse.
The legislation would give growers, laborers what they most need and want, union leader says.
The United Farm Workers and West Coast agricultural groups agree on something.
Leaders of the nation s largest ag workers union are backing a revived bill in Congress that would reform the H-2A farm guestworker program, providing a path to legal status for undocumented workers and their immediate families.
United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero and UFW Foundation Executive Director Diana Tellefson Torres heralded the reintroduction of the bipartisan Farm Workforce Modernization Act coauthored by U.S. Reps. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., and Dan Newhouse, R-Wash.