It doesn't speak well for our country that that would be happening.

immigration reform is the most immediate and meaningful step we could take today to resolve our shortage of workers.

For more than three decades, Congress has failed to modernize our Nation's immigration system.

Those are poverty wages.

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I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Bennet), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent.

If we don't reform our agricultural system, food prices are going to spike in this country.

I think we have to be honest and realistic about it.

We're going to import more food than we export because it's so much cheaper to farm in other places than it is here.

If you say there's enough American workers to make agriculture work in America, you don't know what you're talking about.

Congress should first and foremost regularize the status of those who are in the United States but lack an immigration status.

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That prevents them from being able to integrate and participate fully in American economic and political life.

To wait for 30 years and to watch the situation grow as desperate as it has, not only at the border, but with businesses and farms represented here today.

It would have never happened in the Army. It happens all the time in the Senate, though, unfortunately.

It's a national security risk. Our shortage of farm and food workers has forced us to rely on other countries to meet our food needs.

We've got to get off dead center and do something.