workers and our partner in the senate was ted kennedy who helped us get that long, along with peter rodina from new jersey, so immigrant rights have always been at top and we're still continuing that struggle right now because we have the immigrants rights legislation that's going through the congress. i don't believe that the guest worker program should be implemented at all when you have high unemployment, for instance, in kern county, 30% unemployment right now. we have a lot of people who don't have work and yet employers continue to bring in people from other countries to do the work, and they keep saying, you know, ordinary people won't do this work. well, that's not true. that's not true at all. i mean, we look at "the grapes of wrath" you know when that was going on, people who came in here from other places. many people here in kern county many individuals in office and hold different positions in government. they were once farm workers. it isn't that people won't do farm would. it's that the employers don't want to pay enough money for them to do farm work and don't want to give

workers and our partner in the senate was ted kennedy who helped us get that long, along with peter rodina from new jersey, so immigrant rights have always been at top and we're still continuing that struggle right now because we have the immigrants rights legislation that's going through the congress. i don't believe that the guest worker program should be implemented at all when you have high unemployment, for instance, in kern county, 30% unemployment right now. we have a lot of people who don't have work and yet employers continue to bring in people from other countries to do the work, and they keep saying, you know, ordinary people won't do this work. well, that's not true. that's not true at all. i mean, we look at "the grapes of wrath" you know when that was going on, people who came in here from other places. many people here in kern county many individuals in office and hold different positions in government. they were once farm workers. it isn't that people won't do farm would. it's that the employers don't want to pay enough money for them to do farm work and don't want to give