Lulu Guerrero, of Wiggins, advocates for the Farm Workforce Modernization Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., last week. (Courtesy of United Farm Workers) Lulu Guerrero wakes up at her home in Wiggins, sometimes as early as 3 a.m., to get out to the farm fields that spread across Weld County in every direction and start her days planting and harvesting watermelons, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers and pumpkins. Guerrero, who entered the United States illegally nearly 20 years ago and has worked in Colorado’s $41 billion a year agricultural industry ever since, lives in constant worry about her future and that of the hundreds of thousands of other immigrant workers who labor in America’s farm fields. “We were called essential during the pandemic — all we want is the opportunity to get out of the shadows and stay in the country,” she said through a translator. Guerrero, 53, spent last week in Washington, D.C., pushing for the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, a federal bill that would create a path to legal residency — and potentially eventual citizenship — for undocumented farmworkers in the United States. It passed the House last year — with 30 Republicans signing on — but has yet to get a hearing in the U.S.
Bill That Would Expand Rights For Undocumented Farm Laborers Gets Boost From Colorado Ag Worker
John Aguilar, Denver Post: Politics
Mon, 11/21/2022 - 6:00am
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