Judiciary Committee clears year-round guestworker scheme for House vote

The Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee approved by one vote a bill to create a year-round H-2C agricultural guestworker program that for the first time is open to meatpackers, dairies and the timber industry. Democrats, defeated in every attempt to guarantee higher wages or better conditions for farm workers, said the bill, sponsored by committee chairman… » Read More

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