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Article: At INS, a Move to Ease Entry Of Farm Workers; Agency Assails Growers as `Complacent'
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- The Washington Post
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- June 30, 1987
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The Immigration and Naturalization Service, in an effort to avert
agricultural labor shortages this summer, announced yesterday that it
will allow alien farm workers to enter the United States from Mexico
based on their word that they meet requirements of the new
immigration law.
The INS has been using a cumbersome process in which Mexican farm
workers were required to provide documentation to the U.S. Embassy in
Mexico City, a procedure expected to take as long as two to three
months and stretch through most of the U.S. harvest season.
To be eligible for admission and eventual legal status, the
workers must prove that they worked for at least 90 days harvesting
perishable U.S. crops in ...