In my home State of Delaware, immigrant labor is absolutely key to agriculture.
Christopher Coons
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Christopher A. Coons is a United States Senator from Delaware, serving since 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, he has been involved in various legislative efforts, particularly focusing on foreign policy and international human rights. Coons has been a strong advocate for the Magnitsky Act, which imposes sanctions on foreign officials implicated in human rights abuses and corruption. His work in this area has garnered attention and support from various international leaders and organizations.
In my home State of Delaware, immigrant labor is absolutely key to agriculture.
We need to move towards an immigration system that is safe, humane, orderly, fair, and consistent with the rule of law.
We owe the food on our tables to farmworkers who've kept these farms growing despite shortages, uncertainty, unpredictability.
For years, I've heard from Delaware farmers that the H-2A program's application process is too complex, too time consuming, too costly, too unpredictable.
It's clear to me that the ball is now in our court in the Senate to answer a simple question: What can we find 60 votes to do?
We owe the food on our tables to farmworkers who've kept these farms growing despite shortages, uncertainty, unpredictability.
Understood. We also met with the Prosecutor General Kostin. What else can we and should we be doing to strengthen Ukraine's ability to investigate, to document, to prosecute, to hold accountable perpetrators of war crimes in Ukraine?
The badly broken H-2A system, and overall immigration system, imposes real and lasting costs.
Why not legislatively strengthen that? Why not use that as the platform for action by Congress?
It's clear to me that the ball is now in our court in the Senate to answer a simple question: What can we find 60 votes to do?
Understood. We also met with the Prosecutor General Kostin. What else can we and should we be doing to strengthen Ukraine's ability to investigate, to document, to prosecute, to hold accountable perpetrators of war crimes in Ukraine?
Why not legislatively strengthen that? Why not use that as the platform for action by Congress?
If I could, I'll just assert that those existing regulatory bodies and authorities are under resourced and lack many of the statutory regulatory powers that they need.
If I could, I'll just assert that those existing regulatory bodies and authorities are under resourced and lack many of the statutory regulatory powers that they need.
I'm really concerned that generative AI technologies can undermine the faith of democratic values and the institutions that we have.
We have failed to deliver on data privacy, even though industry has been asking us to regulate data privacy.
I think we need to pursue this both at the national level and the international level.
We have failed to deliver on data privacy, even though industry has been asking us to regulate data privacy.
I think we need to pursue this both at the national level and the international level.
I'm really concerned that generative AI technologies can undermine the faith of democratic values and the institutions that we have.





