Senate to vote on legal status for immigrant farmworkers

[Zorra]

April 19, 2005

WASHINGTON – The Senate is scheduled to vote today on a proposal to grant legal status to at least 500,000 undocumented farmworkers, a plan that immigration advocates hope might set the stage for a broader program to legalize immigrants at work in all areas of the U.S. economy.

The measure's sponsors say it would stabilize the agricultural work force and protect workers from abusive employers. Critics argue it would reward those who crossed the border illegally and generate more illegal immigration.

"We either create a legal work force, a work force that is identifiable, or we keep stumbling down this road" of massive illegal immigration and an uncontrolled border, Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, said in opening debate yesterday.
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The future work requirement marks a sharp departure from the 1986 federal legislation that granted amnesty to 2.7 million illegal immigrants who could demonstrate that they had worked for a specific period of time before passage. But critics warn that the limits will be overwhelmed by a crush of immigrants scrambling across the border to make fraudulent claims that they are eligible.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20050419-9999-1n19agjobs.html

"The business of America is business" - Calvin Coolidge

And the politics of business is to screw the American worker.

[FloridaPat]

1. So why bother to obey any laws in this country. Everyone seems

to be getting away with everything. Except drugs. Get caught with them and you go to jail for years.

[bushisanidiot]

2. Cheap Labor repukes vs. racist gun toting repukes. Pass the popcorn!!

this ought to be gooooooooood!!

[DemFromMem]

3. Kennedy is the co-sponsor

The AgJobs bill is co-sponsored by Senators Kennedy and Larry Craig of Idaho and enjoys wide bipartisan support. This is hardly a Republican bill regardless of what you think about the substance of the proposal.

[bushisanidiot]

4. Doesn't matter. The repukes will get credit for legalizing the immigrants

that the racist gun toting repuke majority hates and doesn't want in this country. The repukes have total power and they will be the ones to point the finger at. It's irrelevant how many dems or which ones vote on this.

I love it when freeptards eat their own!!

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!