UPDATED 17:14 PM EST, February 26, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans and Democrats are joining together to demand changes to the nation's farm worker program as Congress looks to rework U.S. immigration laws.
Lawmakers and witnesses at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing Tuesday said the visa program that allows farmers to hire foreign workers is so unwieldy it accounts for only a very small percentage of the hundreds of thousands of farm workers hired in the U.S. And half or more of agriculture workers are here illegally, experts agree.
