Recognizing Roys breadth of experience and political prowess. Gov. Pete Wilson appointed Gabriel in 1998 to serve as chief deputy director of the California Department of Industrial Relations. Roys involvement with California farming has spanned 30 years. Throughout his lifetime. he has been a tireless voice in support of the valleys immigrant population. In the eighties. Roy helped more than 50.000 workers apply for legal immigration status under the Federal Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Like me. Roy believed the current agriculture labor shortage to be a crisis and fought to bring attention to the issue and enact reform legislation like AgJobs.
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