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Our farmers face a critical shortage of legally authorized and experienced workers, which negatively impacts our economic competitiveness, local economies, and jobs. Every farm worker engaged in high-value labor-intensive crop and livestock production sustains two to three off-farm but farm dependent jobs. We cannot continue allowing foreign producers to take advantage of our labor crisis.

We urge your support for immigration reform legislation to address the crisis facing the agriculture industry.

The agricultural industry has united to present a legislative framework that provides actionable solutions for agriculture’s labor needs. This solution includes:

• An opportunity to obtain legal status

 

• A program to ensure an adequate, productive and competitive arm workforce in the future

This visa program needs to be market-based and have the flexibility to meet the needs of producers, including those with year-round labor needs, such as dairy and livestock.

To contact your Representative and Senators about American agriculture’s need for immigration reform, please call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121.