WASHINGTON, March 10 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:
U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today participated in an Agriculture Committee hearing entitled "Increasing Domestic Consumption of U.S.-Grown Agricultural Products."
Durbin first pointed out that the American agricultural industry does not have the workforce to keep up with demand, and he called for an immigration policy that accounts for foreign workers who are critical for farming operations.
"Mr. Duvall [President of the American Farm Bureau Federation] talked about farm labor. I'm going to put in a word-immigration. We have to be honest about immigration. I've got farm...