We have got to find a path to citizenship for these folks.
Find a path to citizenship for migrant and immigrant agricultural workers.
Occurrences
Evidence
Rep. Becca Balint said the House farm bill passed by Republicans "did not meet the moment" and that she offered two amendments related to affordable housing, both of which were rejected.
Balint's agriculture issue page says she is working to ensure the Farm Bill supports local Vermont farms and that she is fighting in Washington to defend and expand SNAP.
Assessments
No federal path to citizenship for migrant or immigrant agricultural workers has been enacted during Balint's House tenure. The main farmworker-specific vehicles, including the Farm Workforce Modernization Act versions in the 118th and 119th Congresses, remained introduced/referred and did not become law, and Balint does not appear as a cosponsor on those farmworker-specific bills. She did make a related immigration effort as an original cosponsor of H.R.4696, the Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929, which would broaden registry-based legalization and could benefit some long-resident immigrant farmworkers, but that bill also remained only introduced. Because there was a serious legislative attempt but no delivered citizenship pathway, this is not fulfilled.