National Ag News

A new immigrant labor bill is being prepared in Congress.  Laurie Fischer with the American Dairy Coalition tells Brownfield she is working with House Judiciary Committee Chairman and former Ag Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte (R-Va) to support the bill.  “We still are finishing up the completion of the language, but it will allow undocumented workers currently here to participate as well as allow new workers to come into the country as needed.”

Fischer says the Goodlatte bill will be a lot less cumbersome than working with the present H2-A visa program, which doesn’t meet the year-round needs of the dairy industry. 

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