The Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits and Security Act or AgJOBS (S 340 and HR 371) was introduced as stand-alone legislation in January 2007 and then incorporated largely into CIRA 2007. It ...

Nowhere is there a greater need for immigration reform than in agriculture. It is estimated that 1.5 million laborers — or 60 percent of the nation’s 2.5 million farm workers — are undocumented. These ...

A particularly bizarre moment in the immigration debate came and went almost unnoticed. At the same House subcommittee hearing at which Stephen Colbert testified, Rep. Steve King (R- Iowa), who ...

BOSTON -- If you're concerned that unauthorized immigrants are taking work from Americans, here is a union offer on behalf of immigrant farmworkers: "Take our jobs. Please!" The United Farm Workers of ...

WASHINGTON—Tactical concessions and a lot of heavy lifting secured special treatment for agriculture in the big immigration package that's slated for Senate action. The result is a slightly different ...

The debate over immigration amnesty could soon return to the Senate floor. According to press reports, Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) plans to attach the proposed Agricultural Job Opportunities, ...

WASHINGTON — Western growers and union activists are scrambling for a fix after the comprehensive immigration bill on which they'd pinned their hopes collapsed Thursday. Facing long odds, some ...

Since the health care overhaul was passed in March, ag and labor interests have been pushing Congress to take up some form of immigration reform in the current session. But all sides tend to agree ...

BOSTON —- If you’re concerned that unauthorized immigrants aretaking work from Americans, here is a union offer on behalf ofimmigrant farmworkers: “Take our jobs. Please!” The United FarmWorkers of ...

Rep. Chris Cannon introduced his AgJobs bill to allow illegal aliens to work here legally. A few of the perks in AgJobs will be: Foreigners will apply in consular offices around the world and are then ...

Gov. Christine Gregoire is the latest vocal supporter of AgJobs legislation that continues to languish in Congress, joining U.S. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell of late in urging its passage.