Senator FEINSTEIN offered the AgJOBS bill to the Specter bill. the committee bill. It was a 106page amendment. It put 1.5 million illegal alien agriculture workers on a direct path to citizenshipjust like that. How does it do it? After the Feinstein amendment. 1.5 million illegal alien workers who pay a $500 fine and demonstrate they worked in agriculture for 150 workdays in the last 2 years will be given blue cards and will be allowed to stay in the United States. Because a workday is defined as 1 hour of work per day. an alien who worked in agriculture for only 150 hoursthere are 168 hours in a weekover 2 years will qualify. So if you work 150 hours over 2 years. you qualify. Spouses and children of illegal alien agriculture workers also get legal status and work permits. and they are not limited to working in agriculture either. The blue card holder is eligible for a green card in two ways: after 3 years of 150 additional workdays1 hour per day is all that is requiredper year or after 5 years of 100 additional workdays per year. Then. what about citizenship? For these who come here illegally. and they work 150 hous. what happens as to their citizenship?
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