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On May 14, 2009, Senator Dianne
Feinstein (D-CA) and Representatives Berman (D-CA) and Putnam (R-FL)
introduced AgJOBS in the 111th Congress. In the Senate it's
S. 1038 and in the House it's
H.R.2414.
The Agricultural Job
Opportunities, Benefits and Security Act (“AgJOBS”) represents a
major compromise between farmworker advocates (led by the United
Farm Workers) and major agricultural employers to address the
agricultural immigration crisis.
AgJOBS enjoys bipartisan majority support and is endorsed by a broad
spectrum of organizations, including Latino community leaders, civil
rights organizations, religious groups and farmworkers themselves.
Please help
support AgJOBS. You can help by contacting your members of Congress
and asking them to support AgJOBS. You can call your members of
Congress using these
talking points
or you can send a letter to your Senators and Representative asking
them to support AgJOBS using this
sample letter .
Sending letters to your members of Congress is a very effective
method of showing your support for AgJOBS.
Contact information for your Senators can be found here and
contact
information for your Representative can be found here.
You can also support
AgJOBS by visiting the
action alert on UFW’s webpage.
For more information about AgJOBS and to find out what you can do to help pass
it, please
visit the pages below:
What is AgJOBS?
– this section contains general information about the current
version of AgJOBS, including
legislative language, summaries, information about cosponsors, and
worker education material. (For information about previous versions
see the AgJOBS History section).
AgJOBS History
- this section contains historical information about the debate
leading to the AgJOBS compromise, including legislative language and the history of AgJOBS in the
108th, 109th and 110th Congresses.
Farmworkers and
Comprehensive
Immigration Reform
– this section contains information about proposed legislation and
congressional debates addressing comprehensive immigration as it
relates to farmworkers. It also includes resources for more
detailed information about comprehensive immigration reform.
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