Ochoa Bogh State Senator calls on Trump to consider working permits for undocumented immigrants

From Deborah BrennanCalmness

This story was originally published by CalmattersS Register about their ballots.

While President Donald Trump pursues a goal of deporting millions of undocumented immigrants, State Senator Rosilisi Ochoa God calls him to carve opportunities for major workers.

Ochoa Bogh, a Republican from Redlands, writes Trump, speaker Mike Johnson and Senate leader John Tun, asking them to issue “accelerated permits to work with millions of undocumented immigrants who are considered to be major workers such as farm services.”

Efforts are a change of Ochoa Bogh, which has long regarded immigration as a federal matter.

“I have not wanted to deal with immigration for years and now I feel forced,” she told Calmatters.

Republican assemblies Leticia Castillo of Crown and Greg Wallis of Rancho Mirage, together with Republican and Democratic Legislators from South California and Central Valley, signed it A letter calling for a decision For approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants to the United States, including 2.5 million in California.

Some Republicans in California are trying to open lines of communication between the state and the White House. Last month Senator suzette Martinez ValladaresA Republican from Santa Clarita asked Trump to focus immigration on violent criminals and to modernize the immigration process, in a letter with other Republican MPs, including Ochoa Bogh.

“We have to advocate the need for immigration reform and really talk about issues that affect California,” said Ochoa God. “I’m not sure Democrats are actually communicating with the federal government.”

The attempt to overcome this difference is complicated by the raids of immigration, which caused conflict between leaders in California and the Trump administration.

Protesters encountered ice agents and National Troops in Los Angeles Last month. Peris Mayor Michael Vargas called the residents to stay inside After reports of ice operations in the city of Riverside. And Immigration of Church Property in San Bernardino County prompted Bishop Alberto Rohas To release parishioners from the obligation to attend the liturgy if they are afraid of immigration.

Restaurants throughout the country are temporarily closed as their workers and customers avoid immigration raids, Calmatters reportsS Ice raids have “Left -winged decaying” in Farms from Texas to California.

“The system is broken,” said Paul Granilo, president and executive director of the economic partnership of the Internal Empire, before Calmatters. “So we have to look at how people get their vegetables, how people are served in restaurants and look at construction and evaluate that if we do not have immigration reform, the average Californians will pay more for all these goods and services because we do not have enough workers.”

The fall in farms, restaurants, hotels and home construction prompted Trump to walk between plans for mass deportations and Possible Discounts for EmployersS

Some federal legislators see the opening. Congressmeters Mike Levin, Democrat from Capitra in San Juan, and young Kim, a Republican from Anaheim Hills, suggested a federal reform package called Dignity Act of 2025Which would provide a way to the legal status of immigrants workers. Ochoa Bogh said he was trying to build support for the bill in Sacramento.

US has suggested various work visas and permits In the last century. The Bracero program, launched during World War II, is recruiting Mexican workers to help with farms and other military industries. The H-2 visa program of 1952 allows foreign farmers to occupy temporary workplaces in agriculture.

Ochoa Bogh’s parents and grandparents worked on the Bracero program, so it refers to immigrants looking for a job: “I have compassion and empathy for that heart.”

Guest visas have expanded with the 1986 Immigration Reform Act, which also provided amnesty to the established residents. In 1990, Congress added H-1B visas for qualified temporary workers to a program that is still widely used in the technology industry.

The effective work permit program must match foreign workers with the needs of the labor market, Granilo said: “If you limit the number of less than the needs of the labor force, people will still come here, but will come illegally or overcome their visa.”

The efforts to update these programs have left the country with an “outdated, slow -moving immigration system”, writes Ochoa Bogh.

Determining what would be beneficial to employers, while protecting workers from dangerous working conditions and unfair pay, she said: “So we can make these people stay here and not work in the shadows. So they are not subject to operation.”

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