Immigration Reform: H.R. 2202
The House held hearings back in December of 1995 to review the
need for a new agricultural "guest" worker program.
This new program would replace the current H2-A seasonal farmworker program,
which growers have critized for being generally ineffective.
Both the Immigration Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee and the
House Agriculture Committee heard testimony from agricultural groups requesting
that Congress include an amendment to H.R. 2202, the legislation
designed to curb illegal immigration. This effort is necessary say the groups
because H.R. 2202 could have the effect of decreasing the supply of
agricultural labor.
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