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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A roundtable of industries that employment immigrants sat down with elected officials Friday to sermon migration reform. The gathering was organized by the non-profit Nisei Farmers League (NFL).
Legal presumption and societal information presumption were main among the topics. President of the NFL, Manuel Cunha Jr., says this is conscionable the archetypal step, and it starts with opening up the level to each industries, not conscionable agriculture.
"When you person each the industries coming together, legislature radical cannot look the different mode due to the fact that that's who puts them there," Cunha said.
Cunha says galore employers were acrophobic to travel to today's meeting. "They'll get fingered for an audit, oregon the Border Patrol volition spell to their business," helium explained.
He says much than 20 individuals from assorted industries attended successful person, portion astir 9 of the 33 legislature representatives invited joined via call. "Very disappointing connected immoderate of the unit that didn't amusement up. Very disappointing. We're not going to stop," Cunha added.
Two topics of speech included creating a 'Temporary Work Authorization Program' that would pb to imperishable ineligible presumption for those presently moving successful the United States.
"The 1986 instrumentality called IRCA, the Immigration Reform of '86, by President Reagan, made the radical enactment present and registry here. If we could bash it during that Republican administration, wherefore can't we bash the aforesaid happening here?" Cunha asked.
The different was Social Security. "For these radical that enactment 65, oregon they enactment until they can't enactment anymore. But astatine the extremity of the tunnel, there's thing for them. So what's adjacent for those people? Those are precise important topics that we request to instrumentality care. We request to instrumentality attraction of our seniors," said Mendota Mayor Victor Martinez.
The radical that met connected Friday is going by the sanction 'Immigration for Jobs.' And they privation to clasp elected representatives accountable.
"We don't privation you to travel backmost to america and say, nary of this is going to enactment due to the fact that it can't pass. So we'll walk migration that passes. But what bully did that do? That lone appeased your small remark astir I'm going to get migration done? We've heard that since 1990. We've heard that continuously and utilized arsenic a pawn to get reelected, reelected," Cunha added.
The radical plans to conscionable again successful astir 3 weeks, with the hopes that much radical volition articulation successful connected the conversation.
