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As part of its strategic commitment to government advocacy and leadership, the International Fresh Produce Association has played a key role in the creation of The Alliance for New Immigration Consensus, a diverse coalition representing the broad business community and focused on addressing workforce reforms and needs that are critical and essential to our nation’s economy.  

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The U.S. is on track to admit more agricultural guest workers than ever before, according to the Department of Labor. Most Midwestern states are on a similar trajectory.

LANDSCAPE How ironic; the current unemployment rate in the USA is 10 percent, very high for American standards, but at the same time, there is a labor shortage.  In agriculture, specifically in the fresh produce sector American farmers have to depend on migrant labor. It is impossible to mechaniz

Hearing held on immigration reform for farmworkers, Owyhee Produce participates in discussion Lenny Ignelzi/AP and last updated 2021-07-22 17:37:36-04 WASHINGTON, DC — On Wednesday, United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack addressed the Senate Judiciary Committee about a proposed bill, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act that could provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented farmworkers. The bill passed the House in March. “I’m here today simply to advocate on b...

Go Nakamura/Getty Images 25 Jun 2021 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas used his visit to the United States-Mexico border with Vice President Kamala Harris to tout amnesty for illegal aliens. On Friday, during a press conference in El Paso, Texas, alongside Harris, Mayorkas said he was “hopeful” that an amnesty for illegal aliens would be approved by Congress. “I am hopeful that Congress will pass immigration reform to fix a system that everyone recognizes ...

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...

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...

The United Fresh Produce Association BB #:145458 sent this member alert: March 4, 2021 — Bipartisan legislation titled the Farm Workforce Modernization Act has been reintroduced by the Chairwoman of Immigration and Citizenship Subcommittee Chairwoman of Immigration Subcommittee Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Congressman Dan Newhouse (R-WA) last night. This is the same agriculture immigration bill that was passed in the House of Representatives in 2019. The legislation has the support of...

Industry associations support bipartisan Farm Workforce Modernization Act Industry associations support the reintroduction of the bipartisan Farm Workforce Modernization Act, H.R. 1537. “The Farm Workforce Modernization Act introduced by Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Representative Dan Newhouse (R-WA) is a testament to the efforts the agriculture industry and our friends in labor and the bipartisan members of Congress who are supporting this legislation,” said Tom Stenzel, CEO of the Un...