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Conservatives must choose: Are they Anti-'Amnesty' or Pro-Business?

By Gritsforbreakfast

The GOP and the conservative movement in Texas face a big practical glitch as their patchwork ideology meets reality on the ground regarding immigration: At the end of the day, you cannot both be anti-"amnesty" and pro-business. The Dallas News over the weekend demonstrated why that's true in an effective article ("Employers wary of policing immigration," Jan. 27):Between 8 percent and 9 percent of the Texas workforce is estimated to be in the country illegally, according to an analysis of 2005 U.S. Census data by the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center done for The Dallas Morning News. That's nearly twice the national average of about 5 percent. So a crackdown on employers in Texas ? in agriculture and construction in particular, where the percentage of workers is higher ? could have a major impact, some analysts and employers say...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 28, 2008 (boomark / email).