butterbean
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 Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject: California farmers gear up to champion new guest worker bill |
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HUGHSON, Calif. - For generations, Vito Chiesa's family has grown peaches for canning, but the Central California farmer plans to rip out his entire orchard if he can't get enough workers to hand-pick the fruit.
That's the message Chiesa and a corps of California growers will take to Washington this week, as they fly in to campaign for a new Senate bill that would create a guest worker program to grant as many as 1.5 million farm laborers legal status to keep working in the United States.
A similar proposal was defeated last year after legislators stonewalled immigration reform. But farm lobbyists are betting the stand-alone bill, co-sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, and set to be introduced Wednesday, will find new supporters in the Democrat-controlled 110th Congress.
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http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/state/16420415.htm
 We do not need anymore guest-workers,. What we need is Americans, such as teenagers and even crimals paying off time, to work the farmers land. I DONT WANT TO CATCH E-COLI FROM THE DIRTY ILLEGAL SLOBS! |
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