We worked very closely together and were able to convince our colleagues on the Democratic and Republican side of the value of this legislation. It demonstrates very clearly a problem we are facing with the underlying bill. which Is called the Secure Fence Act of 2006. Rather than focusing on comprehensive legislation to deal with the immigration ordeal with the AgJOBS bill. as the Senator has mentioned. which would be valuable and very important in terms of the agriculture industry and also providing important protections for the workers themselvesa compromise that was worked out over a period of yearswe are effectively saying no. we are not going to deal with that. We are just not going to deal with it. The leadership has decided they wont have an opportunity to deal with it. even though there are more than 60 Members.
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