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The U.S. Catholic Conference submitted a statement to a House subcommittee saying it opposes as “dangerous and unacceptable” Senate-passed legislation allowing foreign farm workers to enter the country temporarily to pick crops. Father Nicholas DiMarzio, executive director of the conference’s migration and refugee services, said the church was “adamant in its opposition . . . to all attempts to weaken the protections currently offered to the domestic agricultural work force.”
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