Immigration reform critical to state's farms
Now that health care reform is on the books, it's time for Congress to get on with immigration reform, especially as it relates to the needs of agriculture.
Now that health care reform is on the books, it's time for Congress to get on with immigration reform, especially as it relates to the needs of agriculture.
The NumbersUSA Local Power Team is quietly rolling out its S.T.O.P. AMNESTY in 2010! Target: State by State campaign. The Local Power Team has been out in force over the past two weeks passing out thousands of NumbersUSA Immigration-Reduction Report Cards, raising awareness, and declaring “No Amnesty!”
A new study conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California finds that immigration reform won't hurt or help the economy. The study finds that offering an amnesty to the nation's 11-18 million illegal aliens won't improve their individual financial situations.
If Members of Congress were ranchers living along the Mexican border, how long do you think they would stay quiet about the fact that Presidents Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama haven't felt it important to stop the illegal mass migration of foreign citizens across their lands? How about you? Or me? Talking with Americans not yet murdered along that border fills me with empathetic fear -- and rage.
Much focus in recent weeks has been placed on the security of the Southwest border, but the Northern border with Canada also faces illegal crossings. Since the January earthquake in Haiti, 114 Haitians have been apprehended trying to illegally enter the United States through Vermont.