Why Is this necessary? Currently. in this country. we have a process for guest workers that is terribly broken. The H2A program. if I could show you graphically. has a 6page application for each worker. with 325 pages of instructions as to how to fill it out. As a consequence. all of the foreign workers who are in this country are here either illegally or having been grandfathered in through earlier amnesties. It is estimated by the GAO that 40 percent of those who are here are illegal. As a consequence of that. the GAO has said there is not a farm labor supply problem because we have all these illegal aliens here. I am simply saying. and I am doing it on a bipartisan basis. we owe this country something better than a system that relies upon illegal immigration. We ought to give these foreign workers the dignity of being here under law. with some basic human standards and some benefits to which they ought to be entitled when they are here. It is for that reason that Senator WYDEN and I have approached the farm community and asked them to give as much as they can. to help economically to fix this program.
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