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Congress hasn't passed major immigration reform in 35 years. Two Northwest Republicans could change that


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By Orion Donovan-Smith, The Spokesman-Review
Published: April 26, 2021, 1:30pm
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WASHINGTON On Saturday, thousands of people descended on a vast field in Nyssa, Ore., knives in hand. They had been summoned by a viral video on TikTok.
“If you want to know what 350,000 pounds of wasted food looks like, let me show you,” Shay Myers told his followers in the video, which by then had been viewed 2.7 million times.
Myers, CEO of Owyhee Produce, a family farm with fields on both sides of the Snake River in Idaho and Oregon, stood amid what he said was 35 acres of asparagus that wouldn’t be harvested because the visas he had requested for migrant farm workers had been delayed and he couldn’t find enough local workers, despite paying $16 an hour. ....

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