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New York Times writer Julia Preston celebrates the suspension of Bush administration restrictions on farm labor wages.

      "Carrying out one of the first promises she made after taking office in March, Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis is suspending regulations adopted by the Bush administration to govern wages and recruitment of immigrant guest workers for agriculture."

      "Bush administration officials said they had adopted the regulations to streamline a guest worker program, known as H-2A, which most agricultural employers shunned because they said it was slow moving and hobbled by bureaucracy. Instead, many farm employers turned to hiring illegal immigrants. Bush administration officials estimated that as many as two-thirds of workers in American agriculture were in the United States illegally."

      “'We are hugely and deeply thankful to Secretary Solis,' said Erik Nicholson, a national vice president of United Farm Workers."

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