Source: Jerry Hagstrom, PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 6/17/21

After a meeting on prospects for passage of a farm-labor immigration bill Wednesday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said he made a commitment "on the part of the president to get this done." Vilsack made the statement to reporters after he met with Sens. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, as well as farm lobbyists in the Senate Agriculture Committee hearing room to discuss how to push through the Senate a bill to allow current undocumented farmworkers to stay in the country and to bring in more workers.

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