Though we do have American workers willing to do the work more in other agricultural harvesting. I would suspect if there were not as many illegals in here today in the agricultural marketplace as there are. that we would have a great deal wider use already of the H2 program. It is for that reason that so many people from the agricultural community asked us on the Immigration Subcommittee and the Judiciary Committee when we began work on this bill to broaden and make more practical the use of this program in order that they might be able to have a fallback position when the illegals which they currently are relying on are no longer available to them. So in that context I have great concern about what happens to this program. Both from the standpoint of the bill and the work product that has gone on in my committee. and also from a Florida perspective and an agriculture perspective.
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