Posted on 09/12/2013 5:57:33 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - A group of Republican California lawmakers are breaking with their party's skepticism over immigration reform and asking the U.S. Congress to give immigrants a path to citizenship to help their state's heavy dependence on migrant labor for agriculture and construction.
Flanked by representatives of the state's agricultural, construction and restaurant industries, 16 Republican state senators and assembly members joined a national push to demand a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.
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That’ll work out great for all those businesses, seeing how that California is getting ready to raise the minimum wage to $9/hr. Idiots.
Enough said.
” Flanked by representatives of the state’s agricultural, construction and restaurant industries, ...”
I haven’t read the comments to this thread, yet, so want to state my comments without being influenced by them.
First, it’s really sickening to hear the pols and media constantly using the “11 million” figure! That was the number being used back in 2006-07 when they tried to pass an amnesty bill.
The number of illegals now in the US is probably between 20-30 million, because the Obama admin. has refused to secure the border and to deport multiple offenders or put them in prison for felonies.
The CA Senators and Reps, whether Dem or Republican, don’t give a damn about the economy, unemployment rate, etc.; but only about gaining continued fund-backing from business entities who are looking for cheap labor, so they can remain in their cushy positions in politics with guaranteed pensions paid for by taxpayers.
The above rant was about CA, but it also applies to many other States. .....Rant over.
Obama’s EO for Dreamers is unconstitutional. The constant whining about “tearing apart families” if the adult is deported is BS. Kids are supposed to go with their parents. If the kid was born in the US, then when reaching majority age that kid can choose to go to a US Consulate and make application to come to the US as a citizen.
Whores for big ag.
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