Ex-Cons Floated as Laborers
Ex-Cons Floated as Laborers
(Wall Street Journal) — Republican Gov. Nathan Deal suggested that unemployed people on probation fill thousands of jobs that farmers say have been left vacant by laborers frightened off by Georgia’s tough new immigration lawHis suggestion, made Tuesday, came as the state released a survey showing a shortage of about 11,000 farm . laborers at [...]
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Texas senator calls Spanish speech “insulting”, urges man to speak English
HOUSTON – A Texas senator is drawing criticism for interrupting a Spanish speaker and telling him he should “be speaking in English” during a committee hearing. The exchange happened Monday during a Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee hearing on the so-called sanctuary cities bill. The legislation, which the Senate passed later in the week, would allow local law enforcement …
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Kirk: Infrastructure partnership will boost economy
BLOOMINGTON — A plan of public-private partnerships to improve the nation’s transportation infrastructure to be introduced Monday would help lift the U.S. out of its economic slump, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk said Friday.
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