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2019-12-12 Home Front: Politix
House Passes bill that critics say grants 'large-scale amnesty' to illegal immigrants

[FOX] The Farm Workforce Modernization Act passed 260-165, with support from both Democrats and Republicans. The bill provides a process for undocumented farmworkers to seek a temporary five-and-a-half-year "Certified Agricultural Worker" status if they have worked for approximately six months in the industry in the last two years.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., the bill’s sponsor, said that it was a "historic" compromise and example of bipartisanship.

Because California needs more serfs

The bill had support from a number of farm groups, but has faced fierce opposition from immigration restrictionists, who claim that the amnesty component is similar to one in the 1980s that was rife with fraud and saw more than a million illegal immigrants win protection. They also say that the bill keeps immigrant workers tied to their jobs in a form of indentured servitude until they get their green cards.

"The only thing worse than another large-scale amnesty is one that then forces people to continue to toil for poor wages and under poor working conditions for the same unscrupulous employers who hired them illegally in the first place," Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), said in a statement.
Posted by Mercutio 2019-12-12 07:27|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Mods__ title got truncated. Should be something like House passes bill to legalize illegal Ag workers..

mahalo,

/M/
Posted by Mercutio 2019-12-12 08:08||   2019-12-12 08:08|| Front Page Top

#2 um...beat me to it,

mahalo again
Posted by Mercutio 2019-12-12 08:08||   2019-12-12 08:08|| Front Page Top

#3 SS Part 219.

They can't learn from their fiascos and they really don't give a fook about rule of law.

We are ruled by morons.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-12 08:50||   2019-12-12 08:50|| Front Page Top

#4 The democrats do miss their slaves. Here is another attempt to bring them back.
Posted by CrazyFool 2019-12-12 10:08||   2019-12-12 10:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe they get 'em all registered, then Trump can deport them!

I ain't holdin' my breath.
Posted by Bobby 2019-12-12 11:23||   2019-12-12 11:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Bracero 2020
Posted by Frank G 2019-12-12 11:48||   2019-12-12 11:48|| Front Page Top

#7 House bill — lots of those that go nowhere after passage in the lower house.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-12 14:20||   2019-12-12 14:20|| Front Page Top

#8 We are ruled by morons.

The morons (or other equally moronic morons) keep getting sent back by the voters to continue their misrule.

So who are the real morons in this relationship?
Posted by charger 2019-12-12 18:28||   2019-12-12 18:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Hint: Most people can't figure it out.
Posted by gorb 2019-12-12 18:39||   2019-12-12 18:39|| Front Page Top

#10 The morons (or other equally moronic morons) keep getting sent back by the voters to continue their misrule.

So who are the real morons in this relationship?


We have met the moron and he is us.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-12 19:14||   2019-12-12 19:14|| Front Page Top

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