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Technology trumps illegal labor: the AgJOBS amnesty bills would encourage illegal immigration at a time when new, cost-efficient technology is rendering the need for more field hands obsolete.(Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits, and Security Act)(Cover story)
With the Democratic Party now at the helm of Congress, amnesty legislation for illegal aliens is back with a vengeance. AgJOBS bills--which would provide paths to full U.S. citizenship for illegal aliens working in agriculture--have been reintroduced in both the Senate (S. 237) and the House (H.R. 371). Sponsored by Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Howard Berman (D-Calif.) respectively, these bills are purportedly meant to help U.S. agriculture compete in a global economy, but because the agricultural industries in other countries pay their laborers so much less compared to the United States, the bills are unlikely to do any such thing.
AgJOBS legislation would ...
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