How much would a crackdown on illegal immigration at the nation’s southern border impact the agricultural tasks often handled by migrant workers from Mexico and Central America?
Not much, Newell Normand said during the Thursday edition of his WWL talk show.
“No one’s asked for repeal of the Migrant Worker Protection Act,” Normand said. “There are provisions within existing law in order to bring migrant workers. It’s used extensively by the agricultural communities across this country.”
Normand said the workers are documented beforehand and transition smoothly into their seasonal jobs.
“They know who they are, what they are, where they're going to work,” he said. “They make sure that they have all the necessary things. They also make sure that they get paid appropriately.”
Those workers, Normand said, are not the ones overwhelming public services in America because the country knows they’re here.
“It gets to the point that it’s an issue that’s so hot that now,” Normand said, “when everybody in other countries are down and out and people want to leave there and come here, that there’s this expectation has been created that we’re able to accept them all. And everybody, anybody with a brain, knows that that’s not true. We can’t.”
To hear the full segment, click on the link above.