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Passage is challenging---immigration fights.
Mark Ballard 23, reporter for NOLA, 2/27/2023, “Louisiana farmers worry a polarized Congress will challenge Farm Bill improvements,” https://www.nola.com/news/politics/louisiana-farmers-want-insurance-changes-in-farm-bill/article_81cf7ef2-b494-11ed-b8e1-e3af264e74ca.html
This year, however, could prove challenging as Congress reflects a polarized nation that finds compromises increasingly difficult. It took 15 votes for Republicans, who control the U.S. House, to agree on a speaker.
Immigration is a possible flashpoint. Congress will have to skirt between Republican rhetoric that porous borders fuel crime and the farmers’ reliance on immigrant workers to tend and pick crops.
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