AgJOBS action alert -– December 2, 2010

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Farmworker Justice -

AgJOBS Action Alert – December 2, 2010

We have learned that the House of Representatives is planning upcoming action on the DREAM Act.

Farmworker Justice supports the DREAM Act, but wants to ensure that AgJOBS is included in any intermediate immigration measure moving forward.

It is urgent that you contact your Representative in the

House of Representatives to ask them to support AgJOBS and to ensure that AgJOBS is included in any immigration measure moving forward

Agriculture in our country is in a state of crisis. Without enactment of AgJOBS, farmworkers will continue to live and work in fear. Ensuring a stable farm labor force is critical to our nation’s economic stability,

security, food safety, workforce protections, and values.

A solution to the immigration crisis in agriculture exists in the AgJOBS bill, S. 1038/HR 2414. We must pass AgJOBS now. AgJOBS is a bipartisan compromise between labor and agricultural employers that would provide

employers with a stable labor force by giving current farmworkers an opportunity to earn legal status

and by making balanced changes to the H-2A program.

AgJOBS continues to enjoy broad support. Recently, almost thirty members

the House of Representatives sent a letter to House leadership urging that AgJOBS be included in any intermediate immigration measure moving forward. Editorials in many major newspapers

have argued in favor of enactment of AgJOBS.

Information regarding the history of AgJOBs and detailed information about the bill are available

here.

Please call your Representative and urge him/her to support AgJOBS this Congress.

Contact information for your member of Congress can be found at the following link:

House:

http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml

Talking points:

I urge you to support AgJOBS and to ensure that any intermediate immigration measure moving forward includes AgJOBS.

AgJOBS is a unique bipartisan compromise that would provide a legal, stable labor supply by offering undocumented farmworkers the chance to earn legal immigration status by meeting

stringent past and future agricultural-work requirements and immigration-law obligations.

AgJOBS also would revise the H-2A agricultural guestworker program in a balanced manner based on concessions made by all sides in this debate.

Ensuring a stable farm labor force is critical to our nation’s economic stability, security, food safety, workforce protections, and values. AgJOBS is urgently needed.

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Thank you for your support.

Thanks for your support of farmworkers.

Adrienne DerVartanian

Senior Attorney/Policy Analyst

Farmworker Justice

www.farmworkerjustice.org

adervartanian@...

(20) 293-5420, ext. 305