Lawmakers Consider IDs For Farm Workers

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(Host) A Vermont Senate committee is considering a bill that would create a farm guest worker program for the estimated 1,500 to 2,000 immigrant workers on Vermont dairy farms.

The bill would create a state identification for the workers and a registry that would allow them to be eligible for state services.

Senator Jeanette White, a democrat from Windham County, is the bill’s sponsor. She told the Senate Agriculture Committee Thursday that there’s already a federal guest worker program for seasonal farm workers and for ski resort employees.

She says immigration is a federal government issue, but Vermont has always been willing to go against the federal government when "it’s the right thing to do."

 

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