Politicians Must Change Tone of Immigration Debate
2008 February 28
February 21, 2008 CommonDreams
Margaret Krome, a member of a Florida agricultural family discusses agriculture’s conflicted history regarding migrant workers in the U.S– a history of dependence on migrant labor that has been marred by the nation’s oppressive immigration laws which she argues have created deplorable living and working circumstances for migrant workers. Recognizing that the U.S needs immigrants just as much as immigrants need employment, the author calls for changes to existing immigration policy so that we may see the end of the agricultural industry´s use of the legal system to abuse rural migrant groups. Read more here.
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The immigration debate is such a hard one to deal with even the presidential candidates are unsure how to handle it, it involves jobs, families, and life in general. Some needs to be brave enough to change the debate.