SUPPORT FARMWORKER LEGALIZATION!

(Posted Oct 10, 2003)

E-mail your U.S. senator and representative today and urge support of the new bipartisan legislation for farm worker legalization!

An historic bipartisan agreement, negotiated by the United Farm Workers and the nations major grower groups, has been reached on legislation for farm worker legalization. Help protect those who put the rich bounty of fresh fruits and vegetables on Americas dinner tables. These hard working people accept risks no other American workers endure. They pay taxes but enjoy few, if any, benefits while performing some of the most important labor in our nation: feeding America and much of the world. They constantly live in the shadows of fear, making them easy victims of abuse and poverty.

This bill would (1) create a legalization program enabling undocumented farm workers to earn legal immigration if they have been working in the U.S. and continue to work in agriculture for a period of time; and (2) make reforms in the existing agricultural guest worker program, the H-2A temporary foreign agricultural workerprogram.

Please e-mail your senator and representative, and ask them to support the Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits and Security Act of 2003, a compromise bill by Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Larry Craig (R-ID), and Representatives Howard Berman (D-CA) and Chris Cannon (R-UT).

Send your e-mail today by logging on to www.ufw.org and click the link: legalization

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