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Dozens of House Republicans are pushing a mass amnesty bill that would expand a visa program for illegal alien agriculture workers and give many of them legal status.

Forty-seven Republicans have signed onto a bipartisan bill in the House that would allow illegal aliens who work in agriculture as of May 31, 2026, to obtain H-2A farmworker visas, giving them legal status and waiving some immigration violations like illegally obtaining an agriculture job in order to allow that to happen. It likewise allows employers that hired these illegal workers to bypass accountability.

“With the border now secure, it is time to address these shortcomings and provide fair and legal pathways for all of agriculture to obtain workers when they are unable to find U.S. citizens willing to perform these noble but arduous tasks,” states a Dear Colleague letter from bill author Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Penn., chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, according to Politico.

Another document explaining the bill says it will “ensure that aliens who have self-deported or those who are here and currently working in agriculture but whose only crime is unlawfully obtaining employment will be eligible to apply for H-2A status.”

According to the Department of Labor, a survey suggests that around 327,000 agriculture workers are not authorized to work in the United States. But that only takes into account crop production, whereas “dairy, poultry, hog, or other livestock-related”........

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