Which Way, L.A.?
Farm Workers
Does California have enough field hands to bring in the crops? Farmers say, no, but Washington disagrees and it's deporting undocumented workers. Do we need more "temporary" labor from Mexico? What about higher wages and better working conditions?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readCharlie Jezcek: Assistant director, General Accounting Office education and employment issue area. Principle investigator on report on labor needs in agriculture. Richard Rogers: Los Angeles District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Office. Roy Gabriel: Legislative Director, California Farm Bureau Mark Grossman: Director of press organizations, United Farmworkers. Former press secretary for Cesar Chavez. Congressman Bob Smith: Republican Congressman from Oregon's second district, which covers 20 mostly rural counties across the state. His bill, HR 2377 proposes expanding the temporary agriculture workers program. Congressman Howard Berman: Democratic Congressman from LA. Has been working on farmworker issues since joining the California Assembly. Dan Stein: Executive Director, Federation for American Immigrant Reform. Ana Pagan: Assistant Director, Administrative Services Bureau, Kern County Department of Human Services. David Leibhold: Jakarta based reporter for Time Magazine.
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