Arizona Farm Bureau President Kevin Rogers defended an immigration reform plan on the Liddy & Hill Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio show based in Phoenix.
“We’ve been trying to get meaningful reform for a number of years,” he told the hosts.
“We’re not real happy with everything we’re reading, but it’s a good start and we hope it continues to move. We just want to make sure we’ve got a legal, reliable workforce. We need a supply of workers just like the hospitality industry. Just like the people cleaning the hotel rooms and cutting the grass at the golf course, we need people baling hay at 3:00 in the morning and harvesting lettuce and milking cows and everything else. ... We require a lot of labor to do our jobs.”
Rogers, a cotton and hay farmer, said Sen. Jon Kyl “struck a good balance” on the bill.
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