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A new report profiling American farmworkers and their stories dispels the myth that U.S. workers do not take jobs as farmworkers.
Who Works the Fields? The Stories of Americans Who Feed Us offers a sampling of stories from both U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents working on farms. Although a majority of farmworkers today are undocumented immigrants, there are hundreds of thousands of legally authorized U.S. workers in the agricultural labor force.
Please call the Members of Congress on the House Judiciary Committee, especially if they represent your district. The list is below. Tell them to OPPOSE the Goodlatte “Agricultural Guestworker Act,” H.R. 1773. On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee will hold a “mark up” to debate, amend and probably vote on H.R. 1773. Rep. Goodlatte (R.-Va.) chairs the Judiciary Committee; his bill’s cosponsors include Rep. Gowdy (R-SC) chair of the immigration subcommittee.
This bill would establish a new H-2C agricultural guestworker program that would lower farmworkers’ wages, eliminate labor protections that have existed for decades under the H-2A and Bracero programs, minimize government oversight, allow displacement of US farmworkers and exploitation of vulnerable guestworkers, and deprive farmworkers of meaningful access to the justice system.
The bill would not allow undocumented farmworkers in the United States, or their family members, to earn green cards or the opportunity for citizenship. It does not fix our broken immigration system; it would make it far worse.
This anti-worker, anti-immigrant bill is inconsistent with the approach taken by the Senate “Gang of Eight” in the tough but acceptable labor-management compromise on agricultural workers in the bipartisan immigration proposal, S.744. Read the Farmworker Justice legislative analysis of the Goodlatte Agricultural Guestworker Act at our website page on Immigration Reform and Farmworkers.
You may reach them by calling the US Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee finished debating and amending the immigration bill drafted by the Senate’s bipartisan “Gang of Eight.” The Committee then voted to approve and send to the floor of the Senate the amended version of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, S.744. Farmworker Justice President Bruce Goldstein issued the following statement:
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Please call the Members of Congress on the House Judiciary Committee, especially if they represent your district. The list is below. Tell them to OPPOSE the Goodlatte “Agricultural Guestworker Act,” H.R. 1773. On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee will hold a “mark up” to debate, amend and probably vote on H.R. 1773. Rep. Goodlatte (R.-Va.) chairs the Judiciary Committee; his bill’s cosponsors include Rep. Gowdy (R-SC) chair of the immigration subcommittee.
This bill would establish a new H-2C agricultural guestworker program that would lower farmworkers’ wages, eliminate labor protections that have existed for decades under the H-2A and Bracero programs, minimize government oversight, allow displacement of US farmworkers and exploitation of vulnerable guestworkers, and deprive farmworkers of meaningful access to the justice system.
The bill would not allow undocumented farmworkers in the United States, or their family members, to earn green cards or the opportunity for citizenship. It does not fix our broken immigration system; it would make it far worse.
This anti-worker, anti-immigrant bill is inconsistent with the approach taken by the Senate “Gang of Eight” in the tough but acceptable labor-management compromise on agricultural workers in the bipartisan immigration proposal, S.744. Read the Farmworker Justice legislative analysis of the Goodlatte Agricultural Guestworker Act at our website page on Immigration Reform and Farmworkers.
Committee Members are listed below. You may reach them by calling the US Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Republicans
Goodlatte (R) Chairman, Virginia, 6th
Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R) Wisconsin, 5th
Coble (R) North Carolina, 6th
Lamar Smith (R) Texas, 21st
Chabot (R) Ohio, 1st
Bachus (R) Alabama, 6th
Issa (R) California, 49th
Forbes (R) Virginia, 4th
King (R) Iowa, 4th
Franks (R) Arizona, 8th
Gohmert (R) Texas, 1st
Jordan (R) Ohio, 4th
Poe (R) Texas, 2nd
Chaffetz (R) Utah, 3rd
Marino (R) Pennsylvania, 10th
Gowdy (R) South Carolina, 4th
Amodei (R) Nevada, 2nd
Labrador (R) Idaho, 1st
Farenthold (R) Texas, 27th
Holding (R) North Carolina, 13th
Collins (R) Georgia, 9th
DeSantis (R) Florida, 6th
Democrats
Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member, (D) Michigan, 13th
Nadler (D) New York, 10th
Scott (D) Virginia, 3rd
Watt (D) North Carolina, 12th
Lofgren (D) California, 19th
Jackson Lee (D) Texas, 18th
Cohen (D) Tennessee, 9th
Johnson (D) Georgia, 4th
Pierluisi (D) Puerto Rico, (At-large)
Chu (D) California, 27th
Deutch (D) Florida, 21st
Gutierrez (D) Illinois, 4th
Bass (D) California, 37th
Richmond (D) Louisiana, 2nd
DelBene (D) Washington, 1st
Garcia (D) Florida, 26th
Jeffries (D) New York, 8th
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Immigration reform updates
Immigration is a critically important issue for farmworkers. Learn about current legislation proposals impacting farmworkers.
Learn about the history of guestworker programs, H-2A program for temporary agricultural work, and the H-2B visa program.