The media is getting plenty of material lately from illegal immigration and immigration reform. The Arizona immigration law is being challenged by a Justice department lawsuit. Utah is considering a comparable law, and polls show most Americans agree with Arizona's statute. Meanwhile, unemployed Americans are less than enthusiastic about a campaign offering them low-paying, labor-intensive jobs filled by illegal immigrants.
{|Article resource: Illegal immigrations and also the American farm
To draw attention to immigration reform, the United Farm Workers Union launched a campaign called “Take Our Jobs”. The union supports the AgJobs bill currently held up in Congress that grants temporary legal status to immigrants, which would become permanent if they continue to work on farms for a specific period of time. CNN reports that replacing migrant workers would require at least 500,000 willing unemployed Americans. Everyone who wants to work on a farm can fill out an application at takeourjobs.org.
Back-breaking labor too much for unemployed
Union president Arturo Rodriguez told CNN that at least 4,000 individuals have responded to the application. Some are significant responses and others are hate mail. A few dozen of those thousands have followed through. Most applicants quickly lose interest once the reality sinks in the jobs involve back-breaking labor in triple-digit temperatures and minimum wage, typically without benefits.
Anti-immigration vs. the big picture
About a million individuals work on farms in the U.S., says the Department of Agriculture. According to the Migrant Farm Worker Justice Project, 85 percent of farm workers are immigrants and up to 70 percent are illegal. Even so, a crackdown on illegal immigration is favored by most Americans, surveys show. A Pew Research Center poll reported on by Allheadlinenews.com indicates that 59 percent of Americans support Arizona's immigration law. Copycat laws are being drawn up in nearly 20 other states.
Supermarkets supplied by illegal immigration
The United Farm Workers Union, in support of the AgJobs bill, insists that illegal immigration helps, not hinders, the economy. It's obvious that the least desirable job in America is being a migrant farm worker, Rob Williams, director of the Migrant Farm Worker Justice Project, told CNN. Williams said that if individuals who oppose immigration got their way, farming in America would have a labor crisis. Immigrants fill the jobs nobody wants, he said, because everybody has got to eat.
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