Immigration Reform
Two House committees held hearings in December 1995 to review
the need for a new agricultural guest worker program. The new program would
replace the current H2-A seasonal farmworker program. Growers have generally
called the current program ineffectual.
The Immigration Subcommitee and the House Agricultural Committee heard
testimony requesting that congress include an amendment to H.R. 2202, proposed
legislation designed to curb illegal immigration, to authorize a new program.
Agricultural groups argue that H.R. 2202 as written could have the effect of
decreasing the current agricultural labor supply.
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