Our employment patterns and farming practices are different from the East. Perhaps the streamlined H2 program is an adequate. temporary labor program on the east coast. but it will not work for the New Mexico farmers. The system they have now works well for their needs yet the bill ignores this existing underground stream of migrant workers. It is hard to change employment habits. therefore. I feel we must propose a temporary worker program that acknowledges and meets the farmers needs. Properly drafted and implemented. the guest worker program has the potential to be a valuable foreign policy tool as well as necessary immigration policy. I do not feel that any unilateral guest worker program is sufficient. Both Mexico and the United States must work in tandem to make the program mutually beneficial to both countries.
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