UFW continues immigration reform campaign
October 16, 2013 | 03:40 PM
The United Farm Workers, Farmworker Justice and more than 200 other organizations sent a letter to House members Tuesday stating their opposition to the Agricultural Guestworker Act introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va.
“We strongly oppose Chairman Goodlatte’s HR 1773 as an unworkable, anti-immigrant and anti-worker approach to our nation’s immigration problems,” the letter said. “Relegating hard-working farm workers to a permanent second-class status apart from their families is contrary to our nation’s core values of freedom, equality and family unity,” the groups said.
Today, the UFW, Nisei Farmers League, and a group of Central Valley farm workers planned to deliver nearly 8,000 signed letters and postcards collected from those working in California agriculture to the Bakersfield office of House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. The letters ask that he act and support immigration reform.
“We strongly oppose Chairman Goodlatte’s HR 1773 as an unworkable, anti-immigrant and anti-worker approach to our nation’s immigration problems,” the letter said. “Relegating hard-working farm workers to a permanent second-class status apart from their families is contrary to our nation’s core values of freedom, equality and family unity,” the groups said.
Today, the UFW, Nisei Farmers League, and a group of Central Valley farm workers planned to deliver nearly 8,000 signed letters and postcards collected from those working in California agriculture to the Bakersfield office of House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. The letters ask that he act and support immigration reform.
