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Posted on: May 30th, 2006
Filed Under: [ Hispanic News ] [ Immigration ]
Tags: border, citizenship
“A crackdown on illegal immigration adopted by the House of Representatives in December would put one-third of Michigan’s cherry growers and other specialty crop farmers out of business, the Michigan Farm Bureau estimates.
Bureau officials said those farmers wouldn’t have enough workers if the House bill became law.
They support a less tough approach passed by the Senate on Thursday that would combine border-security measures with offering a pathway to citizenship for some illegal immigrants and a program allowing guest workers.”
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