To The Editor:

The state’s 31,000 farmers cheered last week when Governor Bill Ritter OK’d a plan to ease the seasonal importation of guest workers to harvest crops. I co-sponsored House Bill 1325 which provides two agents to identify workers in Mexico and to cut through the governmental bureaucracy.

I like a system that makes it legal to do honest work. If we can get more legal workers to this country, and we know they are playing by the rules, we farmers and ranchers of Southern Colorado sure appreciate that.

We need to cut through all this red-tape and delay. I’m proud to have helped our farmers who can’t find enough laborers to work their fields and harvest their crops, and we all thank Governor Ritter.

Rep. Wes McKinley

Walsh, CO