The bipartisan farm bill that also grows amnesty

A new House bill will grant amnesty to illegal aliens — if they’ve picked enough fruit.

H.R. 9535, the “Securing Agriculture’s Workforce Act,” was introduced at the end of last month by Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.), chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture. It has roughly 50 bipartisan co-sponsors and does two things under one name.

‘The sad fact is that American citizens just don’t want to do this type of work.’

On paper, the bill rewrites existing qualifications for the H-2A program, the legal channel for foreign farm workers. These changes include opening the program to year-round operations and streamlining the application process within the bureaucracy.

The proposal also drops the “seasonal” requirement, replacing it with an apparently indefinite number of contracts under 350 days. Thompson calls