Action Alert
The American Horse Council is urging your organization to sign on to the
letter below to Members of Congress, regarding the Agjobs legislation.
The Agjobs bill will create a pilot program that will help identify
agricultural workers without documentation and legalize the immigration
status for those who have been working in the United States for two or
more years. It will also provide key needed reforms to the current H-2A
program.
The AgJobs bill is the same bill that was passed in the last Congress by
the Senate, as a part of the comprehensive immigration reform bill. This
legislation is supported by a broad coalition of agricultural industries,
including the AHC, worker advocates, religious, public interest and
taxpayer groups.
To have your organization added to the letter, please contact Kevin
McColaugh at
KMcColaugh@horsecouncil.org or 202-296-4031 by Wednesday, April 4,
2007.
TEXT OF LETTER
March xx, 2007
Dear Member of Congress:
The undersigned organizations and individuals, representing a broad
cross-section of America, join together to ask you to support enactment of
S. 340 and H.R. 371 the Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits and
Security Act of 2007 (AgJOBS). This landmark bipartisan legislation would
achieve historic reforms to our nation’s labor and immigration laws as
they pertain to agriculture. The legislation reflects years of
negotiations on complex and contentious issues among employer and worker
representatives and leaders in Congress.
A growing number of our leaders in Congress, as well as the President,
recognize that our nation’s immigration policy is flawed and that, from
virtually every perspective, the status quo is untenable. America needs
reforms that are compassionate, realistic and economically sensible –
reforms that also enhance the rule of law and contribute to national
security. AgJOBS represents the coming together of historic adversaries in
a rare opportunity to achieve reforms supportive of these goals, as well
as our nation’s agricultural productivity and food security.
AgJOBS represents a balanced solution for American agriculture, a critical
element of a comprehensive solution, and one that can be enacted now with
broad bipartisan support. For these reasons, we join together to encourage
the Congress to enact promptly S. 340 and H.R.371, the Agricultural Job
Opportunities, Benefits, and Security Act of 2007.
Thank you. |
