Black SC lawmaker: Immigrants are hardest workers

This state senator admits that Americans do not work as hard as immigrants do and shows that they are needed. - - Donna Poisl

By SEANNA ADCOX, The Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- An African-American lawmaker in South Carolina said Tuesday that stricter illegal immigration laws would hurt the state because blacks and whites don't work as hard as Hispanics.

State Sen. Robert Ford made his remarks during a Senate committee debate over an Arizona-style immigration law, eliciting a smattering of nervous laughter in the chamber after he said "brothers" don't work as hard as Mexicans. He continued that his "blue-eyed brothers" don't either.
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