Former Bush administration officials have urged Republicans and Democrats to issue amnesty to illegal immigrants, arguing that the policy is “important for the future” of the US economy.
Chuck Conner, Bush’s former agriculture secretary, and Douglas Baker, Bush’s former senior director of border security and transportation policy, are lobbying lawmakers to support the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, an amnesty that would grant green cards to 2.1 million illegal immigrants. Work on US farms.
Writing for Fox News, Conner and Baker wrote:
We’re fixing our immigration system. This will allow farm workers to contribute to the economy with uncertainty and fear, and to bring food to the table of American families at a lower cost. [Emphasis added]
Last year, the House of Representatives passed the Agricultural Workers Modernization Act by both parties. including streamlining the application process and approving year-round employment for temporary agricultural workers. [Emphasis added]
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When the Senate passes a bipartisan immigration resolution for the agriculture sector, it will not only end an looming crisis, but send a signal to millions of farmers and ranchers in a time of great uncertainty in rural America. agriculture and our economy. [Emphasis added]
Last year, the US Chamber of Commerce urged lawmakers to pass a farmer amnesty, saying the policy was “critical to business.” This year, Congress lobbied for a plan to double the legal immigration rate and grant amnesty to the majority of the country’s illegal immigrant population, from 11 million to 22 million.
The farmer amnesty lobby comes at a time when major lawsuits and lawsuits are being waged that expose serious worker rights violations in the country’s legal immigration system.
Late last year, the Justice Department issued indictment No. 54 against 24 people, most of them illegal immigrants, who used the “modern slavery” methods used. United States. – She was allegedly raped, kidnapped and threatened in the process.
Recently, a Florida company was accused of operating a farm in Missouri that imported H-2A foreign workers to reduce labor costs by refusing to pay and putting them in a former prison. Last year, a handful of black Americans sued for allegedly replacing US farms in the Mississippi Delta with imported H-2A workers from South Africa.
In 1997, more than 16,000 foreign H-2A workers were imported to work in American agriculture. By 2021, this number had risen to over 258,000. About 93 percent of all H-2A visas are issued to Mexican citizens.
More than 1.2 million legal immigrants obtain a green card each year, and 1.4 million foreign nationals obtain a visa to work in the United States. In addition, hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants are added to the US population each year.
Today, 11.7 million Americans are unemployed and nearly five million more work part-time. Everyone wants a full-time job that pays well and has a competitive advantage.
John Binder, Breitbart News correspondent. Email him at [email protected]. follow him on twitter here.
Source: Breitbart
