Thread: Migrant Workers Urge Bill's Passage

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Migrant workers urge bill's passage
Congress may reintroduce legislation allowing temporary work permits for noncitizens.

By Vanessa Colón / The Fresno Bee
(Updated Sunday, August 7, 2005, 6:44 AM)

A coalition of farmworker groups is urging members of Congress to support and reintroduce the AgJobs bill, a bipartisan guest-worker proposal they say would protect workers and help farmers sustain their businesses.

The National Farmworker Alliance in June began a campaign in support of the bill. The bill also has strong support from the United Farm Workers of America.

The AgJobs bill, if approved, would grant temporary work permits to agricultural laborers who worked at least 100 days before Dec. 31, 2004. It could allow them to apply for permanent U.S. residency if they kept working for at least 360 days over six years.

The Senate needed 60 votes to approve the AgJobs bill but fell short in April by seven votes.

Manuel Cunha Jr., president of the Fresno-based Nisei Farmers League, and other growers say the AgJobs bill is the best solution to prevent farmworker shortages because it would allow legal migration for workers.

Rep. George Radanovich, R-Mariposa, says the AgJobs bill still has a chance. He expects the bill to be reintroduced in September in the Senate.

"With the AgJobs bill, we won't have an immigration problem again," he says.

Opponents of the bill, such as the Federation for American Immigration Reform, view the proposed legislation as an amnesty program in disguise.

"We feel any amnesty only encourages more and continued illegal immigration," said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, in a written statement. "It is time to wean agricultural employers off of cheap foreign labor for the good of our long-term national interest."

Another bill similar to AgJobs would allow illegal immigrants currently living in the U.S. to obtain temporary visas, but would not be limited to farmworkers, says Rep. Jim Costa, D-Fresno.

That bill, co-authored by Sens. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and John McCain, R-Ariz., would require that undocumented immigrants pass background checks and pay back taxes to obtain permanent legal status.

Costa says Congress might take elements of the different bills and come up with an immigration reform measure.

"At this point," he says, "it's very fragmented."

The reporter can be reached at vcolon@fresnobee.com or (559) 441-6313.

Don't these bills EVER DIE?? Do we have to fight the same battles month after month and year after year?

RR

Yeah, you're right. WHY CAN'T CAFTA BE REINTRODUCED TO CONGRESS, LIKE THE AGJOBS BILL!

Then there's this:

"With the AgJobs bill, we won't have an immigration problem again," he says.

That's like saying if you cut off your hand you won't have to worry about getting a hangnail again!

Right!! Right!! Right!!

SAVE JOBS, DEPORT ILLEGAL ALIENS!!

SAVE LIVES, DEPORT ILLEGAL ALIENS!!

SAVE AMERICA, DEPORT CONGRESS!!

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SAVE AMERICA, DEPORT CONGRESS!!

Best idea yet! :P

Migrant workers urge bill's passage
Congress may reintroduce legislation allowing temporary work permits for noncitizens.


"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."


Amendment I
"Congress shall make no law . . . abridging . . . the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

Immigrant workers have no constitutional right to "petition" OUR government for legislation -- these are the rights and privileges of citizens not aliens ....

ABSOLUTELY MAMIE!! Tell it like it is!! Go Girl!!

Aliens have no rights or protections because they are NOT UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES and:

WE DON'T WANT THEM TO BE!!

What is WRONG with these people in our judiciary and legal fields?

Originally Posted by Judy

ABSOLUTELY MAMIE!! Tell it like it is!! Go Girl!!

Aliens have no rights or protections because they are NOT UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES and:

WE DON'T WANT THEM TO BE!!

What is WRONG with these people in our judiciary and legal fields?

in this country we have "the best judges money can buy" -- I think we can add Congressman to that too!!!


until we have judicial reform and confine the judges of the court to the jurisdiction of the Constitution, we are toast ... but I'm told a judges "order" is law whether I like it or not. IF a judge rules outside of the law and condones criminal conduct they're a criminal and an accessory after the fact

"Accessory After the Fact"....I LIKE IT!!

Lock em up and throw away the keys...how dare they franchise foreign nationals at our expense to end our nation.

Traitors They Be!! Pure, plain and simple.

Thanks Mamie!!