Source: Jacqui Fatka, FEEDSTUFFS, 2/24/21


Congress has not attempted comprehensive immigration reform since a failed 2013 attempt, and a comprehensive immigration overhaul hasn't passed into law in more than 30 years. Although the House attempted to address the issues in the ag sector, each have failed to secure bipartisan support. Chuck Conner, president of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, says the inability to bring ag workers out of the shadows in accomplishing comprehensive immigration reform “might be one of my great failures as a leader in agriculture in Washington because we’ve been at this a long time, and still unsuccessful.”

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