TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Last Time and Next Time: What a Difference a Quarter Century Makes 1 AgJOBS: What it is, How it Works, and Who Would Benefit? 4 Timeline: Farm Workers’ Path to Citizenship 7 Let’s Do the Numbers 8 Pie Chart: Number of Crop Workers in the United States 9 Map: Crop Worker Population in the United States 10 The Consortium’s Vision and Format of this Report 11 STAGE 1: WHAT CAN BE DONE NOW TO PREPARE FOR AgJOBS 12 Group Application Processing: 12 The Group Processing Model 12 Scaling the Model for AgJOBS 13 Staff and Volunteers 19 BIA Volunteer Pilot Program 19 ProBono Attorneys 21 Funding: Long-Range Capacity Creation 21 Funding Capacity Creation through Earned Income 22 Funding Capacity Creation through Grants 23 STAGE 2: SERIOUS CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION OF AgJOBS/IMMINENT ENACTMENT 25 Chart: AgJOBS National Implementation Management Structure 26 Public Education 27 Grassroots Communication to Farm Workers 27 Mainstream Communication to General Public 28 Staff and Volunteers 30 Intern and Volunteer Recruitment 30 Regulatory Advocacy 31 Fundraising: Urgent Organizing of Resources 34 STAGE 3: ENACTMENT 36 Public Education 36 Grassroots Communication 36 Mainstream Communication 37 Staff and Volunteers 38 Regulatory Advocacy 38 Fundraising: Full-On Resource Identification and Allocation 40 Map: Potential Organizational Partners 42 Map: Potential Organizational Partners and Farm Worker Concentration in California 43 QDE Option 44 STAGE 4: APPLICATION PHASE 46 Group Processing 46 Legal Support for Complex Cases 47 Data Collection and Maintenance 48 Staff and Volunteers 49 Continued Resource Allocation for Immigrant Integration 49 ESL and Civics 49 NEXT STEPS 51 CONCLUSION 53 APPENDIX TABLE OF CONTENTS 54 INTRODUCTION "! 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