Clarion- LedgerState laws on immigration vital
October 11, 2010

Here’s hoping that there is more to come on the story headlined “Don’t ban workers, senators warned: Miss. ag industry dependent on immigrants” ( Sept. 29).

Americans from all over the country are reading this online and wondering if the fact that hiring black-market labor is already a federal felony is fully understood. Or if passing a state law that aids enforcement of our immigration laws is not only common sense, but proven effective in cutting the numbers of illegals that saves millions in taxpayer-funded services.

Arizona has fewer illegals because of simply passing its latest pro-American law.

The USA has a longstanding agricultural visa in place called “H2A” that allows for the legal importation of an unlimited number of temporary workers to help where Americans aren’t working. The problem with the H2A for the growers is that they are required to pay a decent wage and provide First-World living quarters to the temporary workers. You know, they can’t be treated like 21st-century slaves.

The problem for the anti-enforcement, ethnic-oriented left is that it is very difficult to create an “oppressed” political constituency from the legally imported workers, as they must leave the country after extending their one-year visa a maximum of three times. Identity politics loses out when the law is enforced.

The senators debating whether to help protect America and our rule of law as well as the general public deserve a complete and accurate picture.

Raise your hand if you think the growers care about anything but the greenback.

Progress would be to pass a law that forces as enthusiastic an immigration enforcement as … Mexico’s.

D.A. King

President

Dustin Inman Society

Marietta, Ga.
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