What these opinions document Is that growers have engaged in a consistent pattern of discriminating against domestic farmworkers. refusing to hire them. and kicking them out of such jobs as they are able to secure. only to turn around and claim that domestic farmworkers are unavailable. I begin today with the opinion captioned "In the Matter of the Failure of Fairview Orchards Associates to Hire the Scrivens Crew." in which the Regional Administra. tor of the Department of Labor found that the grower simply refused to hire 31 U.S. farmworkers. in violation of the regula. tions governing the H2 Program. I invite my colleagues to read this and other DOL opinions. What we find is not the unavailability of U.S. farmworkers. but rather the growers preference for foreign farmworkers. and I do not think we should sanction that preference in the name of immigration reform.
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