>> in 1986 my mother along with the united farm workers union, my mother is sitting in the audience,was able to lobby for the passage of the bill which president reagan signed in which farmworkers tremendous a benefited from. we in the central valley a majority of farmworkers that pick our crops and put food on our tables leader in the center valley and are able to benefit from the amnesty provision. i'm not sure if amnesty is necessary for comprehensive immigration reform, but we do need to have a pathway to citizenship. we do need to have a mechanism where we can bring the 12 million undocumented immigrants, men and women that work every day that do the jobs nobody else wants to do in this country, and being able to give them legal status so we can bring them out of the shadows so they can become taxpaying community members and they can contribute to the building of roads and schools and make our communities better. >> there is no such bill in congress that is amnesty by definition the amnesty is a large group of people with a punishment at every piece of legislation i've been a pa