Agricultural Workers – Immigration Conversation https://immigrationconversation.com An immigration blog about policy and personal stories Fri, 01 Mar 2019 20:53:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 159446691 Stephen Colbert testifies before Congress about immigration https://immigrationconversation.com/stephen-colbert-testifies-before-congress-about-immigration/ https://immigrationconversation.com/stephen-colbert-testifies-before-congress-about-immigration/#respond Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:24:33 +0000 http://immigrationconversation.com/?p=76 Today Stephen Colbert’s congressional testimony shed light on the complexities of having migrant agricultural workers in the United States and some of the issues in the bipartisan AgJOBS bill. Referring to free market capitalism, he said, “Even the Invisible Hand doesn’t want to pick beans.” He advocated offering more visas to immigrants because he said he now understands why Americans aren’t applying for these jobs.

Colbert emphasized how tough it was when he spent a day picking beans and packing corn through the Take Our Jobs program, which was designed to offer farm worker jobs to U.S. citizens. After Colbert’s testimony, Arturo Gonzalez, president of United Farm Workers of America, stated that despite a large number of visitor to their Web site, only seven people have been employed through the program.

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