I would suggest to this body that whether you agreed or disagreed with those different legislative decisions. one of the purposes was to help the workers. Here we have an enormous bailout. an enormous bailout of agribusiness. and most particularly California agribusiness. a multibilliondollar business. and to the contrary. with tremendous. tremendous negative consequences for the workers in California. We have heard from proponent after proponent of this amendment about how terrible the present situation is and that the undocumented workers in California and other parts of this country are being exploited by their employers. the growers. This has been the basis for proposing amendments like this. Now we will have a Governmentsponsored program with minimal protections which will provide the same growers with a work force that I think can fairly be called. much like the gentleman from Texas did earlier. a slave work force. and I will explain why. because those are very emotionally charged words and I think I have an obligation to explain my position.
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