Our map shows who voted YES on Ag Amnesty for corrupt businesses -- including YOUR Representative.
Every red or blue Congressional District on the map below has a U.S Representative who voted to reward corrupt agribusinesses who entice pandemonium at the border by routinely hiring illegal aliens.
Sadly, your District is one of the colored ones.
Why would your Representative think the citizens in your District would want to honor businesses who knowingly and promiscuously violate federal immigration laws instead of at least using the legal guest-worker system? Why would they offer paths to life-time work permits and citizenship to all the illegal aliens those agribusinesses hired?
I know that many of you feel your Representative is a lost cause on immigration issues. But failure to hear enough criticism from their constituents is one of the reasons so many of these politicians keep going more and more radical.
Your Representative's vote to reward corrupt agribusinesses was two weeks ago. But we are not going to stop shining the spotlight on the politicians who voted YES on the H.R. 1603 amnesty for those corporate lawbreakers.
Your Representative brazenly sided with employers who have insisted on enticing and exploiting an illegal-alien workforce even though the government offered them an unlimited legal guest-worker program.
(Voters still have a chance to stop this amnesty in the Senate, which hasn't yet scheduled consideration of the bill.)
Instead of being prosecuted for repeatedly and for years breaking federal immigration laws by hiring the illegal aliens, the agricultural employers are promised rewards by the Representatives in those colored Congressional Districts on the map. Their bill would force the illegal aliens into a form of indentured servitude tied to law-breaking growers and other farm employers for several years before they could move on to drive down wages in construction and service occupations.
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Lest it sound like I am being too harsh in my criticism of the agricultural employers of illegal aliens, let's be clear about the choices they have made. Studies for decades have indicated that if the government and ag employers put as much time into communication and coordination to efficiently utilize available labor as they have put into trying to pass amnesties, there might be very little need for foreign labor -- especially if they offered the wages and working conditions that meet American standards.
But we can set aside that debate for another day. The fact is that Congress long ago removed any pressure on ag employers to raise their jobs to an American standard. Congress did that by offering every ag employer the opportunity to bring an unlimited number of foreign laborers to work their fields and orchards every season.
The only reason there are an estimated more than one million illegal aliens who could get the amnesty offered in H.R. 1603 is that their employers decided to engage in a systematic, organized criminal enterprise of hiring illegal aliens instead of bringing in foreign workers in a legal system in which they would go back home after each season. Why? The employers found it easier and cheaper to break the law than to operate as a lawful business enterprise.
And they were quite sure that elected officials would not insist they be prosecuted as the law required.
IMPORTANT CONTEXT: Most farm businesses do not participate in these criminal patterns. They are also victims of our government's complicity in enabling the lawbreakers. Agribusinesses that attempt to obey the law and treat their workers honorably are put at a competitive disadvantage with the criminal businesses protected by the federal government.
The majority in Congress don't treat the ag lawbreakers like they do other forms of organized crime. Instead, they treat the growers' lobby with the utmost respect as it brags about how many times its members have broken immigration laws and as it uses the magnitude of illegal hiring as the very reason for more favors from Congress. For decades, the congressional leaders of both Parties have allowed the growers lobby to block most serious legislative efforts to stop the flow of illegal workers into all occupations.
Make sure your Representative knows that you know what H.R. 1603 does -- and who voted for it.
We will never get a sustained control of our borders as long as Congress and the President continue to not only allow -- but reward -- businesses who hire illegal aliens. Millions of lower-skilled American workers are idle today -- living off taxpayers, charity and family -- because the jobs in their construction and service occupations have been filled by foreign workers who originally arrived to take ag jobs that were illegally offered by ag employers.
The illegal ag-hiring scam is not a victimless crime. And it is a crime that your Representative has voted to reward.
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| roy beck, numbersusa founder & president |
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