House considers bill to streamline foreign farmworker visa program - East Valley Tribune: Nation / World: "By URIEL J. GARCIA Cronkite News Service | 1 comment
WASHINGTON – A House committee Thursday considered a streamlined guest-worker program that supporters say would ensure a sufficient supply of — documented — farmworkers in the U.S.
The American Specialty Agriculture Act would eliminate much of the current H-2A visa program for foreign agricultural workers and replace it with a streamlined program, H-2C, meant to make it easier for farmers to hire temporary workers.
“The bill (is about) immigration reform, but it’s really a jobs bill,” said Dan Fazio, director for the Washington Farm Labor Association, who testified in support of the bill at Thursday’s House Judiciary subcommittee hearing.
In Arizona — where as many as half of the 75,000 agriculture workers may be undocumented, by some estimates — farm officials said they like the idea behind the bill."
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