Resolution
 

Resolution in Support of AGJobs Bill SB 1645
 

WHEREAS, many of the farm workers in the U.S., who pick the food that we eat 3 times a day, are undocumented, Mexican nationals, and contribute to both the U.S. and Mexican economy; and  

WHEREAS, recent raids and intimidation in California rural and urban communities by U.S. immigration authorities are causing farm workers and other Latinos to be afraid to leave their homes or take their children to school because they are being questioned and arrested because of their skin color; and 

WHEREAS these actions by Immigration authorities spotlight the need for passing a bill to legalize farm workers, which is the first stop to legalize undocumented residents in the U.S.; and 

WHEREAS, a bipartisan bill, SB 1645, is a compromising bill that is endorsed by major agribusiness groups, farm labor organizations including the United Farm Workers, the AFL-CIO and Hispanic Civil Rights organizations like LULAC< the National Council de la Raza and others; and 

WHEREAS, the bill would allow undocumented farm workers to earn the legal right to permanently stay in this country by continuing to work in agriculture. 

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that delegates to the National LULAC Convention being held on July 9 -11, 2004, in San Antonio, Texas, endorse this legislation, and call on all Representatives in the U.S. Congress and U.S. Senators to vote yes on SB 1645, 

By: Rosa Rosales, National VP for Southwest, LULAC Council #649
And Jaime Martinez, Cesar Chavez LULAC Council #4626

Adopted this 10th day of July 2004.
Hector M. Flores
LULAC National President