Session #110 · 2007–09

Speech #1100080786

Madam President. I would like. for a moment. to react to the Senator from Georgia. It is oftentimes confused that AgJOBS was two bills that were merged togethertwo problems solved. One was to create a new. modern. guest workeror I should say flexible guest worker program that fits the needs of American agriculture. That was over here. We reformed the H2A program. But over here was. what do you do with 1.2 million illegals who are here and are now working in agriculture and have been here for 4 or 5 years? That was the other side of it. We said: If you stayed here and worked and became legal and met these qualifications. there would be something at the end of the road because we believe If you dont do that. if you say: Oh. yeah. you can stay and you can work. but you have to stay in agriculture to do sospecific to agricultureyou have created indentured servitude.
Keywords matched
H2A

Classification

Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic contributor Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
LARRY CRAIG
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
ID
Gender
M
Date
2007-07-26
Speech ID
1100080786
Paragraph
#0
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