Debate Over Guest-Worker Programs, Immigration Options Begins Anew
Debate Over Guest-Worker Programs, Immigration Options Begins Anew
DETROIT Immigrants are big business.
An estimated $180 billion in remittances was sent abroad in 2017 by migrants in the United States. Immigrants who want to work but not move here permanently are ideal candidates for guest-worker programs.
For those who do want to work and live here, President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is expected to immediately propose an eight-year path to citizenship for 11 million immigrants devoid of legal status.
Qualifying immigrants would be given a temporary status for five years, earning a green card after passing background checks and payment of taxes. In another three years, they could apply for citizenship.
Ag Labor Solutions Pt 2
Tuesday Jan 19th, 2021 With today’s Fruit Grower Report, I’m Bob Larson. Ag groups are ready to take on Congress in the new year with a list of industry needs, topped in one form or another by ag labor reforms.
AmericanHort Senior Vice President Craig Regelbrugge, speaking at the Potato Expo, said they’ll be taking another run at the Farm Workforce Modernization Act …
REGELBRUGGE … “That all said, I mean, I think many of us are disappointed that we were not able to make progress last year after the House passed the landmark bill. I think that we clearly understand, you know, the pandemic began to bear down and the rest quickly became history.”
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During his first days in office, President-elect Joe Biden plans to send a groundbreaking legislative package to Congress to address the long-elusive goal of immigration reform, including what’s certain to be a controversial centerpiece: a pathway to citizenship for an estimated 11 million immigrants who are in the country without legal status, according to immigrant rights activists in communication with the Biden-Harris transition team.
The bill also would provide a shorter pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of people with temporary protected status and beneficiaries of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals who were brought to the U.S. as children, and probably also for certain front-line essential workers, vast numbers of whom are immigrants.
The bill also would provide a shorter pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of people with temporary protected status and beneficiaries of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals who were brought to the U.S. as children.