Headline from the Decatur Daily: Farmers, business don’t consider illegals a problem.

[F]armers told Mr. Cramer, D-Huntsville, that they depend on immigrant labor to work in cotton gins, nurseries and poultry houses.

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The farmers told Rep. Cramer immigrants do work that U.S. citizens turn down while taking welfare benefits. Rep. Cramer’s response was that the government must get tougher on enforcing existing immigration laws, but he realizes the impact that doing so would have on farm labor.

Sen. Sessions said he agrees with the statement that allowing illegal immigration to flourish is a policy of importing poverty.

If you were a business would you have a problem with a hard working undocumented worker that you could mistreat with near immunity?

It’s interesting how the farmers noted that our nation’s generous welfare programs discourage able bodied Americans from going out and working hard.

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