Thread: Emergency legislation designed to relieve labor shortage in

Emergency legislation designed to relieve labor shortage in agriculture
May 19, 2008 10:29 AM

The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee on May 15 approved legislation sponsored by U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho) that would provide emergency relief to the nation’s current agriculture labor shortage. The legislation was offered as an amendment to the Iraq supplemental spending bill.

According to a statement from Sen. Feinstein, the Emergency Agriculture Relief Act does not provide a path to citizenship or a green card. However, it would grant temporary, limited immigration status for experienced farm workers who would be required to continue to work in American agriculture for the next five years.

The legislation is designed to address the perennial shortage of agriculture workers. These shortages have caused fruit to rot on trees and farming operations to move to Mexico, according to the statement.

“This amendment provides a consistent, stable workforce for an industry that depends almost exclusively on undocumented labor — agriculture. And it provides temporary status for those who have worked in agriculture and who will continue to work in agriculture for a number of years,â€

Requires that emergency agricultural workers who have worked in agriculture to work at least 100 days per year in agriculture for the next five years;

Who can survive on 100 days a year of work? Do they leave when it's over or do we have to fund them for the next 5 years during the dry spells? What about family, children born here......they sure leave alot of unanswered questions.

5 years here under legal status and you can apply for citizenship.

This is a path to citizenship. AMENSTY!

Dixie

We need people to help stop this maddness amnesty does not work we have seen what has happen to our country since the 1986 amnesty and it is not pretty!!!!


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That’s assuming the workers stay in AG and not spread out into construction or the service and hospitality industries. This looks like a wide open pipeline for cheap labor to enter this country under the guise of farm workers and disappear into other jobs. So who’s going to do a head count to make sure that AG works aren’t being employed in non-AG jobs.

So who’s going to do a head count to make sure that AG works aren’t being employed in non-AG jobs.

Exactly......who's gonna round em up once their 5 years are up?

Is this for those already here or is this another million plus on top of those already here?

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