House Passes Big Ag Amnesty - With 34 GOP Votes
Article publisher:
VDare
Article date:
12 December 2019
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
The House passed the Farm Workforce Modernization Act by nearly 100 votes—260-165.
The majority of Congresscritters support the idea of legalizing millions of illegal aliens and turning them into indentured servants for the agricultural industry.
As the Watcher wrote previously:
This Amnesty offers legal status to any illegal who worked in agriculture in the last two years. Those illegal aliens would receive a “Certified Agricultural Worker” visa and be barred from applying for a green card for at least four years...
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The bill expands the H-2A program by an additional 20,000 visas to cover other industries, including dairy and meat-packing...
The bill also allots 40,000 green cards per year for H-2A visa holders.
The bill was sponsored by 25 Republicans, including President Trump’s impeachment allies Devin Nunes and Elise Stefanik. One of the Republican sponsors, California Rep. Doug LaMalfa, said the bill was needed because Americans are too lazy....
The majority opposition to Big Ag’s amnesty indicates that Senate Republicans are leery of the bill and Trump will likely oppose it. ...