Posted on 03/25/2021 8:54:02 AM PDT by NobleFree
Idaho GOP Sen. Mike Crapo is stepping back from his initial show of support for the Democrats’ farmworker amnesty bill, which threatens America’s rural communities by giving employers a low-wage, no-rights foreign labor force for a wide variety of agriculture jobs.
“Even though Senator Crapo has said he’ll work on a Senate version of the bill, we should add he won’t support the existing House-passed version,” Lindsay Northern, Crapo’s communications director, told Breitbart News. She continued:
"Senator Crapo supports helping Idaho farm producers with problems they have under the existing system, such as concerns over liability and the fact dairy producers need a year-round, stable workforce. In all, 34 Idaho industries support improving the workforce system. Crapo continues to work with those business leaders on potential solutions."
The Democrat bill would provide amnesty to at least 1 million farmworkers — plus their families. In exchange, the bill would give agriculture employers the legal ability to replace their amnestied farmworkers by hiring an unlimited inflow of very low-wage H-2A visa workers for a wider variety of jobs. The political swap allows pro-amnesty Democrats to direct the agriculture industry’s lobbying clout against equivocating Republican senators.
Crapo’s step back “is really a welcome development,” said Rob Law, the director of regulatory affairs and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies. “It is a true recognition that now is not the time for amnesty of any sorts, that there’s a crisis at the border, and there are American communities, including in Idaho, that still have not fully recovered from COVID-19. … The Senator recognized that, and he should be applauded,” said Law.
Few Republicans push back against cheap-labor amnesties by describing the economic damage to working Americans — even though the amnesty advocates recognize deep public concern about the economic impact. [...]
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Coming to a school near you. What was wrong with the Brassero program?
If Crap-O would support a measure dropping the federal minimum wage back to $5.25 (from $7.25), then the farmers could afford to hire more Americans, assuming Idaho’s minwage isn’t higher.
But Crap-O would rather support some form of amnesty.
How does Crapo get along with president Shithead?
My daughter in Idaho says if immigrants go there, there are no jobs for them, no housing, and “the good old boys would use them for target practice.”
Crapo better listen to the voters or he’ll be so voted out.
Senator Crapo and other Idaho Republicans have problems with people who protest mask orders.
Last December his name was on a Facebook post associating an anti-mask protest where people had “Trump” flags and so on with “hate” and “Anti-Semitism”.
Crapo is RINO IMHO.
Thank you Nextrush.
Amnesty = Flat Line Pay Scales
Freezer money ensues
Maybe I'm confused but it sounds like the Democrats want to bring back slavery..... but this time they want them as a voting block too!
Stepping back and working on an alternative version of the bill is insufficient. Illegal aliens are illegal and that my FRiends is that.
Crapo will now be successfully primaried this coming year by real GOPers, real Conservatives, and real Citizens who put the future of the Great State of Idaho ahead of the cheap labor express fungi leading the dairy industry.
News flash, prevailing wage for H2A workers is $14.99, not “very low wages” in my opinion. Oh, and travel costs, visa fees are covered and housing is required.
“The bill cuts wages for the H-2A workers and also allows farm companies to pay their H-2A foreign workers with government-provided bonuses of 40,000 family-packs of American green cards each year. The result is that much of the payroll that would be paid to American farmworkers would now be diverted into remittances for foreign people in foreign countries, in turn starving rural American towns of consumers, retail sales, housing values, and tax receipts.”
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