Mexico map

Gail O'Connor, deputy press secretary for U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, sent this map (at the Fresh Produce Industry Discussion Group) that details U.S. agricultural activity in Mexico. The argument for AgJobs is that some of these more than 10,000 jobs and tens of thousands of acres would be in the U.S., not Mexico, if America had adequate immigration provisions for the required number of legal workers needed in agriculture.

Still no word on whether AgJobs will be attached to an appropriations bill or the Farm Bill. If the Dream Act is attached to defense appropriations, that would make AgJobs germane to that legislation, one lobbyist told me.