Bipartisan Group of Senators Announce Immigration Agreement
May 18, 2007
A bipartisan group of Senators announced on May 17 they had reached an agreement on comprehensive immigration reform that includes most of the provisions of industry supported AgJOBs bill, including a guest worker program, employment verification system, and a system to address the current 12 million undocumented workers living in the U.S. "We commend these Senators for working together in a bipartisan fashion to achieve a compromise on this very important, yet divisive issue," said Autumn Veazey, United Fresh director of legislative affairs, associate counsel. "While the Senate continues debating a final bill, we will closely scrutinize the details of the plan as it is so vital to fixing the labor shortages our industry faces." Senate leaders expect the proposed agreement, called the "Border Security and Immigration Reform Act," to be introduced on the Senate floor and voted on as early as May 21. If the bill passes the Senate, work would then shift to the House of Representatives to pass its own bill. A final bill arrived at by conference between the House and Senate would then need to be approved before going to the President's desk to be signed into law. For more information, please contact Autumn Veazey at (202) 303-3427.
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