Worker program changes draw fire  Guest-laborer rules defended
by official  WASHINGTON &#8212; The Bush administration
Wednesday proposed streamlining an agricultural guest-worker
program, but growers and farmworker advocates alike already
doubt the changes will do much good.  With Congress stalled on
broader immigration reform, the administration wants to ease
certain wage, housing and other requirements in the existing
guest-worker program. The revisions are supposed to make it
easier to bring in the foreign workers U.S. farmers say they
need.  &quot;The changes will go a long way towards ensuring
that America's farmers will have a stable, legal work force they
can count on at harvest time,&quot; Deputy Agriculture Secretary
Chuck Conner said Wednesday.  The H-2A program allows farmers to
import foreign workers if domestic workers aren't available. It
is criticized often but used relatively rarely. Last year, about
75,000 foreign farmworkers entered the United States through the
H-2A program. This was only