While the 1982 West Virginia apple harvest proved to be the most difficult in recent memory because of the requirements of the H2 program. similar problems have affected the harvest for each of the past few years. In order to provide some relief to the growers without reducing the valid protection of domestic workers. I offered an amendment to section 211 of S. 2222. the 1982 version of the immigration legislation. during the Judiciary Committees markup of that measure. My amendment modifies the finding that the Secretary of Labor must make before growers are allowed to bring temporary foreign workers into this country. The Judiciary Committee adopted my amendment by a rollcall vote of 10 to 5. An effort to delete my amendment on the Senate floor was defeated by a vote of 28 to 62. Unfortunately. the House of Representatives did not complete action on an immigration bill last year. so the improvement made by the Senate in the H2 program was not enacted. Section 211(b)(2)(A) of the pending bill. S. 529. contains the language of my amendment.
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