True North

I’ve hesitated posting this because I wanted to verify there wasn’t some cheap political shenanigans afoot. But it appears as if our political masters (or so they appear to think) have realized the peasants are ready to revolt again if they try to force another amnesty plan down our throats. So they’ve pulled this trojan horse back inside the ivory towers, and are going to try again later.

When that later is, and how many more individual metaphors I can come up with when it does, is currently unknown. But I’ll keep you posted. However, all news is not good news….and Minnesota will play a key role in this next part.

The other amnesty attempt that I’ve been keeping an eye out for is apparently stirring in it’s cage. Feinstein intends to attach the AgJobs amnesty to the Farm Bill soon, possibly as early as this week. She plans to attach it to the legislation at the committee level and then have it brought to the floor.

Feinstein herself isn’t on the Senate Agricultural committee, and I’m not yet certain which Senator is going to be her toy. Some Senators have apparently already being queried pertaining their status on voting for cloture for such a bill, so it sounds like the waters are being tested already. Let’s hope the same environment that scared off the DREAM Act also scares off the AgJobs.

However, both of Minnesota’s senators serve on the Senate Agricultural Committee so it presents us with a unique opportunity for Minnesota to throw it’s weight around. Both Senators claim they care about our farmers. But do they care enough to prevent a very controversial amendment from being attached to this bill and potentially jeopardize it’s passage?

Call your Senator, both of them, and let them know you don’t want AgJobs in the Farm Bill

Senator Coleman - 202-224-5641
Senator Klobuchar - 202-224-3244

Why don’t you? It’s basically another very thinly veiled attempt at amnesty. It’s supporters claim it’s to ensure plentiful numbers of agricultural workers for our farmers by granting legal status to illegal farm workers (amnesty). What they don’t tell you is that depending on it’s version there are enough loopholes in AgJobs that anyone that has ever seen a farm, eaten something from a farm or can spell farm in 28 tries or less, gets amnesty under this program.

I wish they were this dedicated to loopholes when they modify the tax code….although just like the tax code, even without the loopholes it’s awful.

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