Source: Chuck Abbott, SUCCESSFUL FARMING, 7/22/21


Senate Republicans threw up barriers on Wednesday to a House-passed bill that would give legal status to undocumented farmworkers and streamline the H-2A guestworker program. They called for action first to tighten control of the U.S.-Mexico border and vowed to vote against “amnesty” for undocumented farmworkers, who are estimated to make up half of the agricultural labor force. “If you don’t secure the border first, you’re going to incentivize” illegal entry, said Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican. “If we legalize one worker … you’re going to have a run on the border.”

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