The Georgia farmworker crisis I wrote about last week has been getting a lot of attention. Aside from the fact that it is due to ridiculous Republican legislation, there are a number of interesting side stories that are quite interesting (and concerning).
Huge fallacy: undocumented immigrants don’t contribute to society.
Truth: undocumented immigrants do tremendously important work in inhumane conditions and for completely unfair wages so that Americans can eat cheap food.
Test: Georgia Republican lawmakers recently passed legislation geared at pushing undocumented, “illegal” immigrants out of the state of Georgia.
One week ago, Stephen Colbert, the quite famous Comedy Central host, stepped outside of Comedy Central’s studios (but not outside of his role as a faux-right-wing pundit) to testify at a real hearing of the House’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Security . While Colbert brought humor into this the whole way through, he was …
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