Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Elizabeth Ricci: Immigration reform is critical to Florida

This piece proves that if immigrant workers are given legal status, all American workers would get increased pay also. - - Donna Poisl

by ELIZABETH RICCI • MY VIEW

In mid-March, U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham presented their proposal for comprehensive immigration reform. If their plan were to become law, it would end illegal employment through the use of biometric Social Security cards, boost enforcement, control future immigration to correspond to economic realities, and call for a hard-hitting but reasonable path toward legalization not only for the 720,000 undocumented aliens in Florida, but for the 11 million people illegally in the U.S.

Why is the Schumer-Graham proposal important to Florida? Politics and economics.
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