Bob Goodlatte

Ag Bill Would Expand Visa Program to Dairy & Meat and Seafood Processors

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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) introduced the Agricultural Guestworker Act or AG Act this week, which would replace the existing, H-2A temporary guest-worker visa program with a new H-2C temporary guest-worker visa. The H-2C visa would expand the types of jobs that foreign workers could perform under the visa, adding both dairy workers and meat and seafood processors to the program.

Goodlatte Building “Consensus” for Amnesty, Legal Immigration Increases

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Asked by a reporter to predict whether "comprehensive immigration reform" legislation will get a vote soon in Congress, Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said, “My job isn’t to predict when it’s going to happen. My job is to build the consensus that we need to have immigration reform,” according to ABC News.