[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Pages 1996-1999]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             IMMIGRATION REFORM, GUEST WORKERS, AND AgJOBS

  Mr. CRAIG. Mr. President, this afternoon the Judiciary Committee's 
Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee, on which I serve, held an 
important hearing on immigration and guest worker reform. The hearing 
focused on broad issues related to temporary guest worker, and 
especially on the framework for reform proposed recently by the 
President of the United States. Our chairman, the Senator from Georgia, 
Mr. Chambliss, also welcomed statements from several Senators who have 
introduced bills in this area.
  Before this President came into office, the Federal Government led 
the way as our Nation remained in denial, ignoring both the rapidly 
growing number of undocumented persons in this country and the 
increasing dependence of critical sectors of our economy on 
undocumented workers. Some would say, with justification, that the 
Nation actually spent the last four decades looking the other way.
  Then, a real wake-up call came on September 11, 2001, on the need to 
manage our borders effectively, and of the failure to do so for many 
years before.
  In the last 2\1/2\ years, we have made progress. President Bush has 
demonstrated tireless leadership on and since September 11. The new 
Department of Homeland Security has been established to bring 
rationality to our border, immigration, and homeland security efforts. 
With the hard work of the administration, our men and women in uniform, 
and the Congress, our borders are more secure and our homeland is 
safer.
  However, a lot of work remains to be done, as recognized at this 
hearing.
  The President has proposed a framework for guest worker reform. I 
applaud the administration's repeated assurance that it is not taking 
any position on any one bill and has no intention to preclude any bill. 
The President has said he wants to work out the details with Congress, 
and we are ready to work with him.
  I also appreciated the opportunity to highlight the fact that one 
bill already introduced in Congress is ready to move. We have a vehicle 
ready to road-test key principles in the President's framework. I also 
believe this bill is consistent with the broad goals and principles of 
several of our other colleagues who have introduced broad reform bills.
  That bill is AgJOBS--the Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits, and

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Security Act, introduced as S. 1645 and HR 3142. The ranking member of 
the Immigration Subcommittee, the Senator from Massachusetts, Mr. 
Kennedy, is the bill's other principal sponsor in the Senate. The 
principal difference from other bills is that AgJOBS deals with one 
industry--agriculture.
  AgJOBS is a thoroughly-developed product, fitted for the unique needs 
of agriculture. It represents more than 7 years of work on these 
issues. It reflects 4 years of tough, bipartisan negotiations. A 
majority of the Senate are now cosponsors.
  This bill gives us the opportunity to use reform in agriculture as 
the demonstration program that will help us work out the details, 
anticipate challenges, prevent problems, and fine-tune the mechanics of 
an economy-wide reform package down the road.
  Agriculture also has a unique history of guest worker programs and 
migrant employment. We have the necessary data and experience to draw 
on. There is no doubt in the minds of most of us that there really are 
few American citizens today who want to work, on a seasonal and migrant 
basis, at the hard physical labor of agriculture. In contrast, in some 
other industries, there remains the controversy over the availability 
of willing and qualified domestic workers and concern about their 
displacement by guest workers.
  Agriculture is the industry most impacted by dependence on 
undocumented workers--not by anyone's design, but by circumstance and 
necessity. The government's own data--based, incredibly, on self-
disclosure by workers, themselves--indicates that more than half of the 
agricultural work force is undocumented. Responsible private estimates 
run as high 75 to 85 percent. Farmers are going out of business today 
because they cannot find legal workers at the times they are needed.
  With AgJOBS, we could begin immediately to improve our homeland 
security--and especially ensure the safety and security of our food 
supply--by knowing who is planting and harvesting our crops, where they 
came from, and where they are working.
  With AgJOBS, we do not need to wait to start putting an end to the 
inhumane risks and exploitation suffered by these most vulnerable of 
workers. Every year, more than 300 persons die in the desert, or in 
boxcars, or being smuggled in other hazardous transportation. That is 
not tolerable in a humane society.
  AgJOBS takes the same long-term approach consistent with the 
President's framework and other bills--an improved guest worker 
program. It also addresses the need for a transition program in the 
immediate term, by allowing workers the earned adjustment to legal 
status. This is not amnesty.
  This letter brings together employers and workers--from the American 
Farm Bureau and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the United Farm Workers 
and the AFL-CIO. Cosigners include the National Association of State 
Departments of Agriculture, worker and legal-service advocates, large 
and small employers, Latino groups, religious groups, social service 
organizations, agriculture and other sectors of the economy, 
immigration issue advocates, and others. Legislation involving major 
labor and immigration issues simply does not become law, unless it 
achieves this kind of bipartisan and broad-based consensus
  I continue to invite all my colleagues to become cosponsors of AgJOBS 
and look forward to working with them to move this bill forward this 
year.
  I ask unanimous consent to print into the Record a letter of support 
that Senator Kennedy and I have just received from some 420 
organizations--national, state, and local organizations--asking 
Congress to enact AgJOBS into law expeditiously.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

                                                February 12, 2004.
       Dear Member of Congress: The undersigned organizations 
     representing a broad cross-section of America join together 
     to support enactment of S. 1645 and H.R. 3142, the 
     Agricultural Job, Opportunity, Benefits and Security Act 
     (AgJOBS). This landmark bipartisan legislation would achieve 
     historic reforms to our nation's labor and immigration laws 
     as they pertain to agriculture. The legislation reflects 
     years of negotiations on complex and contentious issues among 
     employer and worker representatives, and leaders in Congress.
       A growing number of our leaders in Congress, as well as the 
     President, recognize that our nation's immigration policy is 
     flawed and that, from virtually every perspective, the status 
     quo is untenable. Nowhere is the status quo more untenable 
     than in agriculture. America needs reforms that are 
     compassionate, realistic and economically sensible--reforms 
     that also enhance the rule of law and contribute to national 
     security. AgJOBs represents the coming together of historic 
     adversaries in a rare opportunity to achieve reforms 
     supportive of these goals, as well as our nation's 
     agricultural productivity and food security.
       AgJOBS represents a balanced solution for American 
     agriculture, a critical element of a comprehensive solution, 
     and one that can be enacted now with board bipartisan 
     support. For these reasons, we join together to encourage the 
     Congress to enact S. 1645 and H.R. 3142, the Agricultural Job 
     Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act of 2003, before the 
     2004 Congressional April Recess.
           Sincerely,
         Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform; American 
           Farm Bureau Federation; National Council of 
           Agricultural Employers, AFL-CIO; U.S. Chamber of 
           Commerce; U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; National 
           Council of La Raza (NCLR); Mexican American Legal 
           Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF); League of United 
           Latin American Citizens (LULAC); William C. Velasquez 
           Institute; United Farm Workers (UFW); National 
           Cattlemen's Beef Association; National Association of 
           State Departments of Agriculture; Catholic Charities 
           USA; The Episcopal Church, USA; Farmworker Justice Fund 
           (FJF); American Nursery & Landscape Association; 
           Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs (AFOP); 
           National Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Association; 
           Gulf Citrus Growers Association; Gulf Harvesting, Inc.; 
           Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA); 
           Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR); Moark 
           LLC; Turfgrass Producers International; Society of 
           American Florists; MAFO; Monrovia Growers (CA, OR, GA, 
           NC); National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium 
           (NAPALC); National Employment Law Project; Arab 
           American Institute (AAI); National Farm Worker 
           Ministry; National Korean American Service & Education 
           Consortium (NAKASEC); Northeast Farm Credit Regional 
           Council;
         OFA--An Association of Floriculture Professionals; Pan 
           American Recruiting; Northwoods Agri Women; Salvadoran 
           American National Network; People for the American Way; 
           Perennial Plant Association; Polish American Congress; 
           Pacific Egg and Poultry Association; Southern Nursery 
           Association; Together in America; Western Carolinas 
           Horticultural Alliance; Yankee Farm Credit; Telamon 
           Corporation; Southern Poverty Law Center; Catholic 
           Migrant Farmworker Network; Housing Assistance Council; 
           Alabama Nursery & Landscape Association; Amanecer (AZ); 
           Arizona Nursery Association; Arkansas Green Industry 
           Association;
         Allied Grape Growers (CA); Almond Hullers and Processors 
           (CA); California Association of Nurseries and Garden 
           Centers; California Association of Winegrape Growers; 
           Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa (CA); 
           California Apple Commission; California Association of 
           Winegrape Growers; Birds Eye Foods; Deere & Company;
         Tyson Foods Inc.; Union of Needletrades, Industrial and 
           Textile Employees (UNITE); United Egg Producers; 
           National Christmas Tree Association; United Food and 
           Commercial Workers Union (UFCW); United Fresh Fruit & 
           Vegetable Association; U.S. Apple Association; U.S. 
           Custom Harvesters, Inc.; Western Growers Association; 
           Western Range Association; Western United Dairymen, 
           Essential Worker Immigration Coalition; Services 
           Employees International Union (SEIU); A. Duda & Sons; 
           Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; American Horse 
           Council; General Board of Church and Society, the 
           United Methodist Church; Agricultural Affiliates; Agri-
           Placements International; Al French, Former USDA 
           Director of Ag Labor Relations;
         National Immigration Forum; National Potato Council; New 
           England Apple Council; Cobank; First Pioneer Farm 
           credit; Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO 
           (FLOC); National Association of Elected and Appointed 
           Latino Officials (NALEO); American Immigration Lawyers 
           Association (AILA); National Chicken Council; National 
           Council of Churches; National

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           Milk Producers Federation; South East Dairy Farmers 
           Association; North East Dairy Producers Association; 
           Northwest Horticultural Council; Wineamerica, the 
           National Association of American Wineries; Winegrape 
           Growers of America; American Jewish Committee (AJA); 
           American Mushroom Institute; Campaign for Labor Rights; 
           Cooperative Producers, Inc.;
         Cooperative Three, Inc.; Council of Northeast Farmer 
           Cooperatives; Dairylea Cooperative; American Frozen 
           Food Institute; California Floral Council; California 
           Farm Bureau Federation; California Grain and Feed 
           Association; California Grape & Tree Fruit League; 
           California Institute for Rural Studies; California 
           Landscape Contractors Association, Inc.; California 
           Rural Legal Assistance Foundation (CRLAF); California 
           Seed Association; California Strawberry Commission; 
           California Women for Agriculture; Catholic Charities, 
           San Diego; Central American Resource Center (CA); La 
           Clinica de la Raza (CA);
         Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles 
           (CHIRLA); Franciscan Friars of St. Barbara Province 
           (CA); Harry Singh & Sons (CA); Imperial Valley 
           Vegetable Growers Association; John Harris Farms Inc. 
           (CA); Korean Resource Center, Los Angeles; Lassen 
           Canyon Nursery, Inc. (CA); Los Angeles Coalition to End 
           Hunger & Homelessness; Marin Interfaith Task Force for 
           the Americas; NiSEI Farmers League (CA); Northern 
           California Growers Association; Nursery Growers of 
           Southern California; Our Lady of Victory Missionary 
           Sisters (CA); Raisin Bargaining Association (CA); 
           Ventura County (CA) Farm Bureau; Southern California 
           Ecumenical Council; United Food and Commercial Workers 
           Union (UFCW) Local 1442 (CA); Universal Immigration 
           Service (CA); Colorado Nursery Association;
         Colorado Sugar Beet Growers Association; Estes Valley 
           Multicultural Connections (CO); Northern Colorado Onion 
           Association; Sisters of Loretto (CO); Connecticut Farm 
           Bureau; Connecticut Nursery & Landscape Association; 
           Connleaf, Inc. (CT); H.F. Brown Inc. (CT); The Lyman 
           Farm, Inc. (CT); Delaware Nursery & Landscape 
           Association; Latin American Community Center (DE); 
           Latin American Youth Center (DC); Migrant Legal Action 
           Program (DC); Big Cypress Housing Corporation (FL); 
           Centro Campesino (FL); Carlos Rosario Int'l Career 
           Center and Public Charter School; Caribbean Immigrant 
           Services Inc. (FL); Catholic Charities of Orlando, 
           Inc.; Coalition of Florida Farmworker Organizations; 
           Everglades Community Association, Inc.;
         Everglades Hammock, Incorporated; Fair Food America (FL); 
           Farmworker Association of Florida, Inc.; Farmworkers 
           Self-Help (FL); The Fellsmere Community Enrichment 
           Program (FL); Florida Catholic Conference; Florida 
           Citrus Mutual; Florida Citrus Packers, Inc.; Florida 
           Farm Bureau Federation; Florida Immigrant Advocacy 
           Center; Florida Impact; Florida Fruit and Vegetable 
           Association; Florida Nurserymen & Growers Association; 
           Florida Strawberry Growers Association; Fundacion 
           Salvadorena de la Florida; Guatemalan Unity Information 
           Center (FL); Immokalee Multicultural Multipurpose 
           Community Action Agency, Inc. (FL); Indian River Citrus 
           League (FL); Legal Aid Service of Broward County, Inc. 
           (FL); Live Oak Villas, LLC (FL);
         Little Manatee Housing Corporation (FL); Migrant 
           Farmworker Justice Project, Florida Legal Services, 
           Inc.; Mujer (FL); Pinellas Support Committee (FL); 
           Ranch One Cooperative, Inc. (FL); Redlands Christian 
           Migrant Association (FL); Retail Systems Consulting 
           (FL); Sarasota/Manatee Farmworker Supporters; Sisters 
           of the Humility of Mary--Indian River (FL); Skinner 
           Nurseries (FL); Sugar Cane Growers Co-op of Florida; 
           Unite for Dignity, Inc. (FL); Center for Pan Asian 
           Community Services (GA); Georgia Green Industry 
           Association; Georgia Rural Urban Summit; Idaho 
           Commission on Hispanic Affairs; Idaho Community Action 
           Network; Idaho Farm bureau; Idaho Food Producers; Idaho 
           Grain Producers Association;
         Idaho Migrant Council; Idaho Nursery & Landscape 
           Association; Potato Growers of Idaho; Snake River 
           Farmers Association (ID/MT); Centro Romero (IL); 
           Chicago Jobs With Justice; Conguate (IL); Disciples 
           Justice Action Network (Disciples of Christ) (IL); 
           Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights (IL); 
           Hispanic Lawyer's Association of Illinois; Illinois 
           Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights; Illinois 
           Landscape Contractors Association; Illinois Migrant 
           Council; Illinois Nurserymen's Association; Immigration 
           Project (IL); Instituto Del Progreso Latino (IL); 
           Korean American Resource & Cultural Center (KRCC), 
           Chicago; Law Office of Shirley Sadjadi (IL); Law Office 
           of Douglas W. Worrell, Chtd. (IL); The Midwest 
           Immigrant & Human Rights Center (IL);
         Project Irene (IL); The Resurrection Project in Chicago; 
           Central Indiana Jobs With Justice; Indiana Nursery & 
           Landscape Association; Immigration Outreach Office, 
           Catholic Charities/Archdiocese of Dubuque; Immigrant 
           Rights Network of Iowa and Nebraska; Iowa Nursery & 
           Landscape Association; Iowa Project; Sisters of Charity 
           (IA); El Centro, Inc.--Kansas; Kansas Farm Bureau; 
           Kansas Nursery & Landscape Association; Kentucky 
           Nursery & Landscape Association; Catholic Charities 
           Archdiocese of New Orleans; Farm Credit of Maine; Maine 
           Nursery & Landscape Association; Angelica Nurseries 
           (MD); Bell Nursery (MD); CASA of Maryland;
         Centro de la Comunidad, Inc. (MD); John Shorb 
           Landscaping, Inc. (MD); Maryland Aquatic Nurseries, 
           Inc.; Maryland Nursery & Landscape Association; Migrant 
           and Refugee Cultural Support, Inc. (MIRECS) (MD); 
           Quinn's Kingsville Farms (MD); Robin Hill Farm Nursery 
           (MD); Speakman Nurseries, Inc. (MD); Centro Presente 
           (MA); Irish Immigration Center (MA); Massachusetts Farm 
           Bureau; Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy 
           Coalition; Massachusetts Nursery & Landscape 
           Association; Eastern Michigan University's Bilingual 
           Bicultural Education; Teacher Training Program; 
           Michigan Farm Bureau; Michigan Migrant Legal Assistance 
           Project; Michigan Nursery & Landscape Association; 
           Leitz Farms LLC (MI); Zelenka Nursery, LLC (MI);
         Jewish Community Action (MN); Minnesota Nursery & 
           Landscape Association; St. Joseph The Worker Church 
           (MN); Centro San Martin Deporres (MS); Mississippi 
           Immigrant Rights Alliance (MIRA!); Office of Hispanic 
           Ministry, Catholic Diocese of Jackson (MS); Rich Smith, 
           Pastor of St. Ann Catholic Church, Paulding (MS); The 
           Social Concerns Committee of the Catholic Community of 
           St. Francis of Assisi (MS); Daughters of Charity in St. 
           Louis (MO); Human Rights Action Service, St. Louis 
           (MO); Latin American Action Team, Giddings-Lovejoy 
           Presbytery (MO); Mission Effectiveness, School Sisters 
           of Notre Dame, St. Louis; Missouri Nursery & Landscape 
           Association; Montana Nursery & Landscape Association; 
           Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public 
           Interest; Nebraska Nursery & Landscape Association; 
           Culinary Workers Union, Local 226--Nevada; Nevada 
           Landscape Association; Comite de Apoyo a Los 
           Trabajadores Agricolos (NJ);
         Irrigation Association of New Jersey; Mexican American 
           Association of Southern New Jersey; Migration and 
           Refugee Services Diocese of Trenton; New Jersey Farm 
           Bureau Federation; New Jersey Immigration Policy 
           Network, Inc.; New Jersey Nursery & Landscape 
           Association; Rural Housing Incorporated (NM); Brennan 
           Center for Justice at New York University School of 
           Law; Cabrini Immigrant Services (NY); Cayuga Marketing, 
           LLC (NY); Centro Hispano Cuzcatlan (NY); Centro 
           Independiente de Trabajadors Agricolos (CITA)--(NY); 
           Centro Salvadoreno, Inc. (NY); Christian Brothers (NY); 
           Commission on Peace and Justice of the Roman Catholic 
           Diocese of Albany, NY; Empire State Council of 
           Agricultural Organizations (NY); Farm Credit of Western 
           New York; Farmworkers Legal Services of New York; Lake 
           Placid Groves LLC (NY); New York Association for New 
           Americans; New York Farm Bureau; New York State 
           Horticultural Society;
         New York State Apple Growers Association; New York State 
           Cherry Growers Association; New York State Nursery & 
           Landscape Association; New York State Vegetable Growers 
           Association; PRO-FAC Cooperative (NY); Public Policy 
           Committee, Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester, NY; 
           Rural and Migrant Ministry (NY); Torrey Farms (NY); 
           Willet Dairy (NY); Workplace Project (NY); YKASEC--
           Empowering the Korean American Community (NY); El 
           Pueblo, Inc. (NC); Episcopal Farmworkers Ministry (NC); 
           High County Amigos Inc. (NC); Immaculate Concepcion 
           Church (NC); Latino Community Credit Union (NC); Nash 
           Produce Company, Inc. (NC); North Carolina Association 
           of Nurserymen; North Carolina Farm Bureau; North 
           Carolina Justice and Community Development Center;
         North Carolina Landscape Association; Student Action With 
           Farmworkers (NC); Triangle Friends of the United 
           Farmworkers (NC); Vitalink (NC); Zelenka Nursery, LLC, 
           (NC); Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (OH); En 
           Camino, Migrant and Immigrant Outreach, Diocese of 
           Toledo; High Stakes Farms (OH); Immigrant Worker 
           Project (OH); Northern Ohio Growers

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           Association; Office of Hispanic Ministry, Catholic 
           Diocese of Cleveland; Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, 
           Inc.; Ohio Fruit Growers Society; Ohio Landscapers 
           Association; Ohio Nursery & Landscape Association; Ohio 
           Vegetable & Potato Growers Association; United Church 
           of Christ Justice and Witness Ministries (OH); Vlasic 
           Pickle Growers (OH); Asian American Community Service 
           Association, Inc.; Oklahoma Nursery & Landscape 
           Association;
         Venezuelan American Association of Oklahoma; CASA of 
           Oregon; Farmworker Housing Development Corporation 
           (OR); Hood River Grower-Shipper Association (OR); 
           Northwest Workers' Justice Project (OR); Oregon 
           Association of Nurseries; Oregon Farm Bureau; Oregon 
           Farm Worker Ministry; Oregon Law Center; Pineros y 
           Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN), Oregon; El Vista 
           Orchards (Wexford, PA); Five Forks Fruit (Waynesboro, 
           PA); Friends of Farmworkers (PA); Hollabaugh Brothers, 
           Inc. (Biglerville, PA); Pennsylvania Farm Bureau; 
           Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition; 
           Pennsylvania Landscape & Nursery Association; Peter 
           Orchards (Gardners, PA); Sisters of the Humility of 
           Mary--Villa Maria, Pennsylvania--(Sister Ruth Mary 
           Powers); State Horticultural Association of 
           Pennsylvania;
         Feinstein Center for Citizenship & Immigration Services 
           (RI); Rhode Island Nursery & Landscape Assn, Inc.; 
           South Carolina Greenhouse Growers Association; South 
           Carolina Nursery & Landscape Association; South 
           Carolina Upstate Tree Growers Association; Catholic 
           Hispanic Ministry, Diocese of Knoxville (TN); Mid-South 
           Interfaith Network for Economic Justice (TN); Tennessee 
           Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition; Tennessee 
           Nursery & Landscape Association; Centro de Salud 
           Familiar le Fe (TX); Ellison's (TX); El Paso Central 
           Labor Union; Equal Justice Center (TX); Houston 
           Community Services; Jovenes Immigrantes por un Futuro 
           Mejor (TX); Midland Community Development Corp. (TX); 
           Migrant Clinicians Network, Inc. (TX); Rio Grande 
           Valley Sugar Growers, Inc. (TX); Texas Agricultural 
           Cooperative Council; Texas Nursery & Landscape 
           Association;
         Texas Poultry Federation; Texas Egg Council; Texas 
           Broiler Council; Texas Poultry Improvement Association; 
           Texas Produce Association; Texas Seed Trade 
           Association; Texas State Florist's Association; Texas 
           Turkey Federation; Texas Vegetable Association; 
           Turfgrass Producers of Texas; Utah Farm Bureau; Utah 
           Nursery & Landscape Association; Catholic Diocese of 
           Richmond, Virginia; Hampton Roads Coalition for 
           Workers' Justice; Hispanic Committee of Virginia; 
           Refugee and Immigration Services, Catholic Diocese of 
           Richmond; Southwest Virginia Nursery and Landscape 
           Association; Virginia Green Industry Council; Virginia 
           Council of Churches; Virginia Justice Center for Farm 
           and Immigrant Workers;
         Virginia Nursery & Landscape Association; El Centro de la 
           Raza (WA); Grupo Mexico of Washington State; Lutheran 
           Public Policy Office of Washington State; Marsing 
           Agricultural Labor Sponsor Committee (WA); Underwood 
           Fruit and Warehouse Company (WA); Washington 
           Association of Churches (WA); Washington Growers 
           Clearing House Association; Washington Growers League; 
           Washington Potato & Onion Association; Washington State 
           Commission on Hispanic Affairs; Washington State 
           Nursery & Landscape Association; Washington Sustainable 
           Food & Farming Network; Commercial Flower Growers of 
           Wisconsin; Gardens Beautiful Garden Centers (WI); 
           Grounds Management Association of Wisconsin; Northern 
           Christmas Tree Growers & Nursery (WI); Office of 
           International Student Services, University of 
           Wisconsin-Platteville; South Central Federation of 
           Labor, AFL-CIO (WI); UMOS (WI);
         Wisconsin Council of Churches; Wisconsin Landscape 
           Contractors Association; Wisconsin Landscape 
           Federation; Wisconsin Nursery Association; Wisconsin 
           Sod Producers; Ivan Kohar Parra, Executive Director, 
           Latino Community Development Center.

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