Peter Welch: “If we don't have immigrant labor, our cows don't get milked.”

“We've had some of our dairy workers picked up. And I am fully in support of, hopefully, bipartisan legislation that allows for our farmers to get the labor they need in Vermont. If we don't have immigrant labor, our cows don't get milked. It's just that simple. Do you have a view on a position that would reform the immigration laws that would allow for ag workers in Tennessee and Kentucky and Vermont and Iowa?” (00:49–00:54)

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