More On Obama's Immigration

After President Obama's immigration announcement recently, tongues began wagging trying to determine if this was a good thing or bad. Dan Fazio with Washington Farm Labor Association says it's a bit of both.

FAZIO: We're working with the administration and our elected officials to try and make tweaks to the legal worker program to make it easier to use and that's fundamentally what need to happen. Fundamentally what the administration could have done without being accused of taking extra legal steps the could have unilaterally - it's within the powers of the administration to make that guest worker program, the legal worker program, easier to use and the President elected not to do that and in fact in 2010 made it much harder to use.

The good side?

FAZIO: We do feel incredibly happy and exhilarated for the people who have been doing this job, the undocumented people who have been doing this job and now are going to have the dignity of legal presence. So I guess we need to talk about that, Greg. We need to talk about the fact that we owe it to those folks that have been coming here and working, undocumented, to grant them the dignity of legal presence and I think we should be happy for them that they've received that.

There are some questions about who would be eligible for this program.

FAZIO: It kind of is an arbitrary deal in that if you have children who are born here and therefore U.S. citizens that you would be eligible for this.

That's today's Fruit Grower Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network of the West.