House plan would give immigrant farm workers some well-deserved breaks

This would be a good thing. Though as the article points out if you go down a ways there are caveats.

Of course much of Trump’s base would hate it. But after any initial feelings of anger and betrayal, they’d just go into full, cognitively rigid denial. As they do, for example, when confronted with evidence of Republican plans to destroy earned benefits like Social Security.

As part of a compromise to allow farmers to hire year-round foreign guest workers, the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to create a path to legal status for over a million undocumented farm workers, in what could be the most significant action on immigration in decades.

The Farm Workforce Modernization Act, a sweeping, 224-page bill, passed the House by a 260-165 vote. Backed by hundreds of farm groups, and politicians on both sides of the aisle, supporters said the act would end the shadow of uncertainty and fear of deportation experienced by many field workers in the U.S. - New Food Economy