If you had peach. pear. and prune pickers lined up to work In 3 or 4 weeks after the cherries had come off. which is normal. about 3 weeks after that. these small farmers would have had workers lined up under the H2 Program to finish the harvest and they would have found out. because of the extraordinarily cold weather after the 4th of July. that everything got delayed by 2 weeks. I hope that Senators will heed very carefully the thoughtful remarks of the senior Senator from Washington. because I think they were right on target. He said very accurately that this amendment is absolutely essential if this bill becomes law and is to be a workable law and achieve the noble goals that some of our colleagues wish to achieve in their quest for immigration reform. It is a humanitarian amendment. I have heard some comments by the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts and others which imply that this amendment will not be good for the workers.
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