Farm Bureau Calls for Immigration Reform

Patrick O’Brien, an economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, speaking at an issues conference at the organization’s 89th annual convention, cited three major points the agricultural community needs from immigration reform. Agriculture must have: a simplified guest worker program that supplies 500,000-750,000 legal migrant and stationary foreign workers for agriculture on a reliable, recurring basis; an effective guest worker wage set at the prevailing market wage; and a compromise with labor rights groups on treatment of guest workers that allows the program to work and farmers to operate.

According to O’Brien, the farm workforce has stabilized at about 3 million; 2 million farm family workers and 1 million hired workers.”*

*From: http://www.fb.org
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