Pamela Cruz. Pen sula 360 Press [P360P].
More than a million undocumented farmworkers in the country, nearly half a million of whom work and live in California, will be able to obtain legal status in the U.S. and eventually become citizens if a bipartisan bill headed to the Senate is approved.
Last week, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act passed the House of Representatives, where 30 Republicans joined the Democratic caucus in giving the green light to the bill that could stabilize the agricultural workforce.
This bill will allow agricultural workers who have lived in the U.S. undocumented to qualify for their