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Durbin Questions Witnesses During Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing On Immigrant Workers, Agriculture, And Need For Immigration Reform

Hearing

Date: May 31, 2023
Location: Washington, D.C.
Issues: Employment and Affirmative Action Immigration

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"There are many parts of it [Ms. Tellefson Torres' testimony] that are just heartbreaking to think, in America, this is taking place. Would you address the issue of wage theft? That is [described] in your statement, and it appears that many workers who are nominally being paid so much per hour are actually being paid less because there is a middle man.

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One of the proposals in the House of Representatives that passed on a partisan basis was to impose E-Verify on agriculture workers--that would check whether they are documented or undocumented. That legislation also included changes to the H-2A program, reversing a recent Department of Labor regulation setting wages. The bill did not include a path to legal status for undocumented workers--even though we know they make up at least 40 percent of the agricultural workforce. What would a mandatory E-Verify provision for agricultural workers do to the agriculture industry?"


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