Congressmen Baron Hill and Joe Donnelly are joining Ellsworth in backing a new bill that would put thousands more agents at the border, and require that employers use a free government service to verify that those they hire are legal.
"If you're a business that is doing the right thing and only hiring legal immigrants, you have nothing to worry about," Hill said.
All three are Democrats and part of last year's freshman class who know their positions on illegal immigration are being closely watched. The potency of the issue already being seen in the presidential campaign, and is beginning to stir new action on Capitol Hill as well.
"I think you'll see a number of House Democratic freshmen, especially from a lot of these conservative-leaning districts who were first elected in 2006, emphasize the immigration issue," said Greg Giroux of Congressional Quarterly.
Both Ellsworth and Hill voted for the NAFTA-style Peru Free Trade deal. At least Donnelly did not.
So Ellswoth and Hill vote for corporate trade agreements throwing foreigners into poverty and forcing them to America, and then support militarization of the border to guard against people coming into this country.
Chris calls them Rove Dogs for jeopardizing Democratic prospects among fast growing populations. Really though they are simply con men using economic anxieties to bash immigrants as cover for their corporate agenda. Or maybe I'm wrong, and corporate trade agreements are super-popular in heavily unionized Indiana, where Ross Perot picked up 20% of the vote in 1992.
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