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Farm industry pushes Congress on immigrants

The agriculture industry, facing a major labor shortage in California and elsewhere of the illegal immigrants on whom growers depend to tend and harvest crops, is making a last-minute push to give undocumented farmworkers temporary status as part of a border-security measure in Congress. FRANK DAVIES in The San Jose Mercury News.