some of these guestworkers are -- if i was a u.s. citizen i could ask for more money, walk off the job and get an easier job. and the department of labor says, this is a strategy to pay people less. says,partment of labor you and i know the reason you bring in jamaican and mexican workers is control. they are abused. the can't leave. don't push it under the rug. you know more than all of us. you see every day. and the farmers come back and say, we have such a small margin. if there is a bad season, if it rains, what are we supposed to do? -- we't people to pay can't afford to pay people more when we are working on such a small margin. so what we have is a final strategy for improving workers' conditions. in the justice for farmworkers campaign, i want you to think about the comparisons to souza and sinclair. what does this mean for these activists and writers? what are their politics? in a case, justice for farmworkers decides to focus on legislation. they say, we are never going to get anywhere unionizing, people are too spread out,

and the first answer is the jamaican guestworker program. i talked about the bracero having ended in the 19 axes, that in the 1960's, but that doesn't mean the guestworker program ended. the program morphed. the book "no man's land," is in excellent book about guest workers in the u.s. we still have guest workers working in new york state in large numbers, although increasingly less. this is an article just last month in "the new york times" about jamaican guest workers. this allows farms in the northeast to recruit non-u.s. labor. and also, the idea that the farm andto actually advertise, say, there is no american who wants these jobs and then get the paperwork in to bring the guestworkers. many of these guestworkers come back to these same farms over and over again for multiple years. they said much of their money back to jamaica, and the idea is that at the end they will not stay in the u.s. but will return to jamaica. jamaica sees this program as beneficial for the country because the economy there is depressed. this is a way to bring do

those businesses have been clamoring for more guestworkers in recent months. the administration is of super open to the idea bringing a bigger guestworker program into the country, and have been careful about how far they will go for this. hasetary kirstjen nielsen said they are considering adding more pieces. it is reported 15,000 or so could be added. host: democrats line. caller: i'm talking about the children being separated. judges onmigration c-span where they spoke about the guatemalan mother who had come in illegally and paid a coyote to deliver her child to the border guard. sometimes people are deliberately separating themselves from their children because it is to their vantage. advantage. i'm not for separating children, but this is a complicated issue. guest: it is complicated, and some people are probably traveling to the border and ascending for their kids to unify with them later. the administration is taking deterrent steps to say all people who attempt to cross illegally, we will persecute them. if we separate families, then we separate famil

. >> north carolina, every year brings in guestworkers to pick the cotton.the worst job and they have dried up leaves. you cannot find a native born north carolinian who will any longer pick cotton. but they do all all of these. they're happy enough to get it. >> i am from columbia. i live here for 20 years. i got the idea to interview all my friends that came from different countries for a book that gladly you wrote about immigrants coming to miami. my question is if that book is going to be published in spanish because you have such a unique way to see a. >> it will be published in spanish but the hold up is translation. if i had finished the book on time like sixgh months ago but i've always been able to do reading pretty well. >> your writing about us. [inaudible] thank you very much. [applause] >> best-selling author tom wolfe from 2012 passed away this monday at the age of 88. he appeared on book tv several times over the last two years and you can watch all of his appearances on booktv.org. >> here's a look at some books being published this week. joh

to kim jong-un's visit to beijing, the chinese have already promised to begin letting guestworkers from north korea back into china. that's before kim jong-un has done anything. the chinese have already begun to grant him economic relief. part of what we are calling here is realistic goals that all of these international actors can get behind. we leave the gall to lofty, everyone to find it for themselves and moves the levers asincentives as they see fit opposed to in a relationship to something tangible that we can all agree to. specialt to give attention to south korea. we would not be here without president moon jae-in and his diplomacy. i think we must give him a great deal of credit. he read the situation well and offered an attractive offramp. told moon that it was ready to step back from the one obstacle to pass negotiations and that was the north korean insistence that the u.s. remove its troops. they were saying they won't insist on that. that is a major positive sign. expect sanctions to be lifted immediately. they understand it is a process and we have control over it. until

those businesses have been clamoring for more guestworkers in recent months. administration is of super open to the idea bringing a bigger guestworker program into the country, and have been careful about how far they will go for this. hasetary kirstjen nielsen said they are considering adding more pieces. it is reported 15,000 or so could be added. host: democrats line. caller: i'm talking about the children being separated. judges onmigration c-span where they spoke about the guatemalan mother who had come in illegally and paid a coyote to deliver her child to the border guard. sometimes people are deliberately separating themselves from their children because it is to their vantage. advantage. i'm not for separating children, but this is a complicated issue. guest: it is complicated, and some people are probably traveling to the border and ascending for their kids to unify with them later. the administration is taking deterrent steps to say all people who attempt to cross illegally, we will persecute them. if we separate families, then we separate families.

in the "washington post," reporting that the department of homeland security has allotted 16,000 guestworker visas. host: we continue our discussion about commencement speeches. have they become too political? harry is on the line from baltimore. what do you think, harry? caller: i think it is too much trouble with those speeches, because they tried to indoctrinate the young people into becoming democrat or republican. they should be celebrating that they are graduating from college and get them to go out and earn a living and start paying their debts, just like all of us did before them. i appreciate the call. bye. host: on monday, memorial day, we will look back at 100 years of american involvement in world later, in thers spring and summer of 1918, american army soldiers and marines saw their first major combat in northeastern france. angel, on offer, will join us to talk about the role of u.s. troops. that is monday on memorial day. we are continuing our conversation about commencement speeches. miriam is going from miami. what do you think? caller: i think it is ok for them to be politi

that is an agricultural guesswork -- guestworker program.tor of the economy where we have a huge number of people who are not lawfully present in the country working. we need to change that. and get a legal, workable program part of our proposal. it is not part of the farm bill. shery: give us more details on that immigration bill. on thell get voted on third week of june. because there will be some changes. what will you -- what can you tell us about that and how different is it from your origal bill? rep. goodlatte: we have made a number of changes to the agriculture provisions in the bill, to make the touchback provision work better, to make sure that people are confident that the number of workers available under this program which has a cap on it will be sufficient. and we also have made literally a dozen or more other changes to wet heart of the builder have also focused on changing the daca program to make it more attractive for daca recipients. so that they can have a permanent program where they renew once every six years, and it ha

ago and in response to the visit to beijing, the chinese have already promised to begin letting guestworkersto china. that is before kim jong-un has done anything. the chinese have already begun to grant economic release a part of what we are calling for here is realistic goals that all of these international actors can get behind because if we leave it to lofty and everybody gets to define it for themselves and move the pressure and incentives as they see fit in relation to something tangible that we can all agree to definitively. >> i'm glad you've raised this question because i want to give special attention to south korea. we wouldn't be here without precedent moon jae-in and his diplomacy. we must give a great deal of credit. he read the situation well and offered an attractive offramp for the john chang -- peon yang olympics -- the north koreans are now saying that as a major part of the sign. he also told me -- kim johg-il they understand the process and we have control over it and unless and until they do verifiable steps towards the denuclearization, we don't have to do anything. th

in the "washington post," reporting that the department of homeland security has allotted 16,000 guestworkeras. host: we continue our discussion about commencement speeches. have they become too political? harry is on the line from baltimore. what do you think, harry? caller: i think it is too much trouble with those speeches, because they tried to indoctrinate the young people into becoming democrat or republican. they should be celebrating that they are graduating from college and get them to go out and earn a living and start paying their debts, just like all of us did before them. i appreciate the call. bye. host: on monday, memorial day, we will look back at 100 years of american involvement in world later, in thers spring and summer of 1918, american army soldiers and marines saw their first major combat in northeastern france. angel, on offer, will join us to talk about the role of u.s. troops. that is monday on memorial day. we are continuing our conversation about commencement speeches. miriam is going from miami. what do you think? caller: i think it is ok for them to be political.