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.

For my part, I met with constituents across the State of Illinois, and everywhere traveled I heard the same thing over, and over, and over.

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

Those are poverty wages.

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

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

This is what a good faith compromise looks like in divided government.

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

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

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

The highest court in the land should not have the lowest ethical standards.

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