POLL: Push resumes for AgJobs bill to allow farmworker illegals to stay

By TRACY X. MIGUEL
Naples Daily News
Posted July 10, 2010 at 4:30 p.m., updated July 10, 2010 at 4:55 p.m.

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2010/jul ... -illegals/

NAPLES — In the heat of immigration debate across the nation, growers and farmworker advocates are pressing for passage of the federal legislation known as Agjobs.

The bill, which has been on the brink of passage several times, continues to have widespread support from agricultural groups, farmworker advocates and religious organizations across the state.

Rob Williams, director of the Florida-based Migrant Farmworker Justice Project of Florida Legal Services, said the AgJobs bill would have strong impact in the state, the nation’s secondÂ*-largest agricultural economy, after California.

“Without farmworkers, Florida would lose billions of dollars,â€