A handful of House Republicans, with deep financial ties to the agriculture lobby, are joining Democrats to reintroduce an amnesty for more than two million illegal aliens working on United States farms.
agriculture wages down to “[protect] against sudden wage increases that disrupt employer planning and operations.”
Specifically, the bill freezes wages for one year and caps wage fluctuations nationwide at 3.25 percent for almost a decade.program in which foreign workers are imported to take U.S. farm jobs for up to three years. Under provisions of the bill, dairy farmers and other agriculture-related sectors would be able to import up to 20,000 foreign H-2A visa workers.
In addition, the bill adds 40,000 employment-based green cards for which foreign H-2A visa workers can apply after a decade in the program — creating a new pipeline of legal immigration. The farmworker amnesty has been a fixture of the powerful agricultural lobby’s agenda for years. Campaign finance data shows that sponsors of the bill have deep financial ties to the agriculture lobby.
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