Immigration reform looks like it’s about to clear one of its final hurdles in the Senate.
On Tuesday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) told reporters that talks between growers and farm worker unions appeared poised to produce an agreement and that they’d know its status “within 24 hours.”
The negotiations had proved one of the last sticking points for the bipartisan “Gang of 8” negotiating a comprehensive immigration bill. Officials with United Farm Workers had complained that agricultural business groups were refusing to agree to high enough wages for foreign workers and on a sufficiently low cap on visas for imported labor.
“We are making progress,” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), one of the senators working on the immigration bill, told reporters when asked about the agriculture talks.
