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Vote Alert: Make illegal aliens indentured servants, then give them amnesty
December 06, 2019
This was a vote on H.R. 5038, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, a bill that would grant amnesty to millions of illegal alien workers in the United States without securing the border or reforming the nation’s immigration system.
This bill creates a new class of immigration titled “Certified Agricultural Worker” (CAW) available to any illegal alien who has worked in agriculture for at least 180 days in the past two years. Once accepted into the program, these illegal aliens can obtain renewable five-year work visas as long as they remain in the agriculture industry. After a two-year period, “Certified Agricultural Worker” aliens will be protected from deportation. Additionally, the bill would suspend active removal proceedings against illegal aliens who are eligible for the program, even those who did not apply for it.
There is a pathway to citizenship in this bill. Illegal aliens who have worked in agriculture in the U.S. for at least 10 years before obtaining CAW status may apply for green cards after working for at least four additional years. Illegal aliens who have lived and worked in the U.S. for fewer than 10 years must work for at least eight years before being eligible for a green card. The Federation for American Immigration Reform has described this program as “an archaic system that resembles indentured servitude.”
Proponents of the legislation argue that there are provisions that strengthen immigration law enforcement. The bill would establish mandatory E-Verify for all agricultural employment, but the program is limited to the agriculture industry and would be implemented over time.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, there are an estimated 2.4 million farmworkers in the U.S, and at least 47 percent of them are illegal aliens, which is likely a low estimate. This bill provides amnesty and a path to citizenship for these illegal workers without needed reforms to the nation’s immigration process or appropriated measures to strengthen border security. Amnesty will attract more foreigners to enter the United States illegally seeking work, undermining the rule of law, empowering violent drug cartels that deal in human trafficking, and worsen the crisis along the southern border. Limited E-Verify implementation is not worth the trade-offs in this bill.
The House of Representatives voted to pass the Farm Workforce Modernization Act on December 6, 2019, at 12:39 p.m. ET in a roll call vote of 228 – 187.
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CR position: NO
U.S. House of Representatives*
*Minority party in italics
AYEs — 228
| Adams Aguilar Allred Axne Barragán Beatty Bera Beyer Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Boyle, Brendan F. Brindisi Brown (MD) Brownley (CA) Bustos Butterfield Carbajal Cárdenas Carson (IN) Case Casten (IL) Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu, Judy Cicilline Cisneros Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly Cooper Correa Costa Courtney Cox (CA) Craig Crist Crow Cuellar Cunningham Davids (KS) Davis (CA) Davis, Danny K. Dean DeFazio DeGette DeLauro DelBene Delgado Demings DeSaulnier Deutch Dingell Doggett Doyle, Michael F. Engel Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Finkenauer Fitzpatrick Fletcher Foster Frankel Fudge Gallego Garamendi García (IL) Garcia (TX) Golden | Gomez Gonzalez (TX) Gottheimer Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Haaland Harder (CA) Hastings Hayes Heck Higgins (NY) Himes Horn, Kendra S. Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Huffman Jackson Lee Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (TX) Kaptur Keating Kelly (IL) Kennedy Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim Kind Kirkpatrick Krishnamoorthi Kuster (NH) Lamb Langevin Larsen (WA) Lawrence Lawson (FL) Lee (CA) Lee (NV) Levin (CA) Levin (MI) Lewis Lieu, Ted Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren Lowenthal Lowey Luján Luria Lynch Malinowski Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Matsui McAdams McBath McCollum McEachin McGovern McNerney Meeks Meng Moore Morelle Moulton Mucarsel-Powell Murphy (FL) Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Norcross O'Halleran | Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pallone Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Peters Peterson Phillips Pingree Pocan Pressley Price (NC) Quigley Raskin Rice (NY) Richmond Rose (NY) Rouda Roybal-Allard Ruiz Ruppersberger Rush Ryan Sánchez Sarbanes Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schrader Schrier Scott (VA) Scott, David Sewell (AL) Shalala Sherman Sherrill Sires Slotkin Smith (WA) Soto Spanberger Speier Stanton Stevens Suozzi Swalwell (CA) Takano Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tlaib Tonko Torres (CA) Torres Small (NM) Trahan Trone Underwood Van Drew Vargas Veasey Vela Velázquez Visclosky Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Welch Wexton Wild Wilson (FL) Yarmuth |
NOEs — 187
| Abraham Aderholt Allen Amash Amodei Armstrong Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Bergman Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (NC) Bishop (UT) Bost Brady Brooks (AL) Brooks (IN) Buchanan Buck Bucshon Budd Burchett Burgess Calvert Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Chabot Cheney Cline Cloud Cole Collins (GA) Comer Conaway Cook Crawford Crenshaw Curtis Davidson (OH) Davis, Rodney DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Duncan Dunn Estes Ferguson Fleischmann Flores Fortenberry Foxx (NC) Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Gianforte Gibbs Gohmert Gonzalez (OH) Gooden Granger | Graves (GA) Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hagedorn Harris Hartzler Hern, Kevin Herrera Beutler Hice (GA) Higgins (LA) Hill (AR) Holding Hollingsworth Hudson Huizenga Hurd (TX) Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Katko Keller Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) King (IA) King (NY) Kustoff (TN) LaHood LaMalfa Lamborn Latta Lesko Long Loudermilk Lucas Luetkemeyer Marshall Massie Mast McCarthy McCaul McClintock McKinley Meadows Meuser Miller Mitchell Moolenaar Mooney (WV) Mullin Murphy (NC) Newhouse Nunes Olson Palazzo Palmer | Pence Perry Posey Ratcliffe Reed Reschenthaler Rice (SC) Riggleman Roby Rodgers (WA) Roe, David P. Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rooney (FL) Rose, John W. Rouzer Roy Rutherford Scalise Schweikert Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smucker Spano Stauber Stefanik Steil Steube Stewart Stivers Taylor Thompson (PA) Thornberry Timmons Tipton Turner Upton Wagner Walberg Walden Walker Walorski Waltz Watkins Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Woodall Wright Yoho Young Zeldin |
Not Voting — 16
| Barr Bass Byrne Cartwright Emmer Gabbard | Gosar Hunter Kinzinger Larson (CT) Marchant McHenry | Norman Porter Serrano Shimkus |
*Minority party in italics
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