{"id":1950,"date":"2019-12-19T12:46:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T12:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2019-12-19T12:46:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T12:46:45","slug":"bipartisan-house-agriculture-bill-is-a-win-for-both-farmers-and-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=1950","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan House Agriculture Bill Is a Win for Both Farmers and Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“”I want people to come into our country in the largest numbers ever, but they have to come in legally,” said President Donald Trump during his 2019 State of the Union address. But migrants need a way to do that. At present, those opportunities are few and far between: A low-skilled immigrant from Mexico would have to wait an average of 131 years<\/a> to successfully immigrate to the U.S. 
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“If we want illegal immigration to end, Congress has to guarantee farmers a better way to follow the law,” writes<\/a> Daniel Bier, an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“While some worry that these visas displace American workers, U.S. farmers are required by law<\/a> to offer H-2A positions first to people who can already legally work in the U.S. They seldom find enough takers. The Cornell Farmworker Program found<\/a> that dairy farmers rely on undocumented workers because they cannot identify a sufficient amount of U.S.-born employees to fill the positions. This might explain why approximately 50 percent of all farmworkers<\/a> are undocumented immigrants, according to the Department of Agriculture.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bipartisan House Agriculture Bill Is a Win for Both Farmers and Immigrants<\/a><\/blockquote>