Speech #1040192324

Chairman. I submit to the authors of the amendment and to those listening to this debate that there is not any credible study that indicates there is a need to bring in 250.000 people to do work on our farms in this country. and I urge Members to vote against it. D 1630 It will clearly. in my view. lead to not only making life more miserable for folks that do very tough work at very low wages already by. in effect. reinstating the old bracero program. but it also will lead to increased illegal immigration because we are not being realistic if we expect guest workers to leave at the end of every worker contract. That simply is not going to happen. They are going to stay here.