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Mo Brooks: Agricultural Amnesty an 'Attack on Blue Collar Workers'

posted onDecember 13, 2019
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Article snippet: A plan to provide the agricultural industry with an unlimited inflow of illegal alien workers and H-2A foreign visa workers is “an attack on blue-collar workers” in America, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) says. In an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight, Brooks slammed the passage of an agricultural amnesty plan — which nearly all House Democrats and 34 House Republicans supported — that he said will further crush the wages and job prospects of America’s blue-collar workforce. Despite this, Brooks said, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other lobbying arms of the cheap foreign labor industry “put in tens of millions of dollars each election cycle to ensure that they elect House members and Senators who are anti-American worker and for lower wages based on a surge in the labor supply by illegal alien labor and lawful immigrant labor.” LISTEN: “This amnesty bill is an attack on the American people and in particular, it is an attack on blue-collar workers — people who work with their hands, people who already have a tough time making ends meet,” Brooks said. “And the reason it is an attack on those individuals is because it does two things ultimately: One, it increases competition by illegal alien labor that in turn takes jobs from hard-working American citizens,” Brooks continued. And two, it creates a huge surge in the labor supply, that in turn … it’s the wages of the least among us that are going to be suppressed because of this effort by th... Link to the full article to read more

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