Oh great they couldn't pass amnesty for illegals so now they are trying to legalize it piece by piece under our noses.

Feinstein, Lofgren push for immigrant workers
Two of California's most immigrant-dependent industries - agriculture and Silicon Valley - are pushing narrow measures through Congress in an effort to employ foreign workers at opposite ends of the labor market, people who pick vegetables and the postgraduate engineers and scientists of Silicon Valley.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein attached a farm guest-worker program to the giant Iraq spending bill Thursday in a last-ditch effort to remedy a shortage of workers in California's produce fields as the federal government continues to crack down on illegal immigration and the political climate proves hostile to more sweeping measures.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, teaming with Republicans, is pushing several bills to give permanent residence to top engineering talent.

"It's an emergency," Feinstein said of the farmworker situation. "If you can't get people to prune, to plant, to pick, to pack, you can't run a farm."

Her addition to the Iraq spending bill would give temporary legal status to 1.3 million farmworkers over the next five years, but it would provide no path to citizenship or permanent residency. It passed the Senate Appropriations Committee 17-12 on Thursday.

Workers applying for the program would have to prove they had worked on U.S. farms for at least 150 days or 863 hours, or had earned at least $17,000 during the last four years. They would have to remain working in agriculture for the next five years, when the program would expire.
Citizenship on hold

The move marks an end for now to efforts to give farmworkers a path to citizenship after a sweeping immigration bill crashed in the Senate last June. Feinstein has been trying all year to attach a bill called AgJobs but has met nothing but dead ends

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"There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”—Theodore Roosevelt

And here we go again,

This is a work visa (not a green card) for work hands that they need. If you, or someone you know is capable or willing to do the job, I am sure they would give you preference, The Help Wanted sign is posted, there are just no takers.

What is so wrong about giving these people permission to work, when the country obviously needs the farm hands, because they can't get them domestically? This way they will make competitive wages, pay their taxes, and go home when their five years are up. Kinda like promoting from within,

What are you mad about now. You want to pay $5 for a carrot. And do you want to see educated people be recruited by our competition? Sometimes people are so mad they shoot their own foot.