Today, the House Judiciary Committee held a mark-up on the Legal Workforce Act, H.R. 1147, and passed the legislation out of committee on a party-line vote. The concerns of agriculture featured prominently in today’s mark-up. The devastation agriculture would face and the need to pass a solution for agriculture was mentioned by several committee members ...
Western Growers along with over one hundred and forty members of Agriculture Workforce Coalition (AWC) sent a letter to House leadership today registering strong opposition to H.R. 1147, the Legal Workforce Act, which was reported out of the Judiciary Committee two weeks ago. The letter lays out agriculture’s opposition to any E-verify legislation that does not include…