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A nonbinding piece of legislation calling on Congress to impeach President Joe Biden over U.S. border security issues failed on Monday in the Republican-controlled Idaho House of Representatives. Language in House Joint Memorial 11 that referred to “cheap immigrant labor” appeared to doom the measure, even for an Idaho Legislature that rarely passes on an […] The post GOP-controlled Idaho House kills memorial calling on Congress to impeach President Biden appeared first on Idaho Capital Sun.

A proposed rollback of child labor regulations survived another committee on its way to becoming law, but not without modifications.

The reality here is that iowa's 3 million residents are overwhelmingly white, and the state strong economy needs immigrant labor. >> iowans, especially here, would have a very difficult time having anything to eat at dinner time without immigrants because immigrants are the ones who process the meat, who farm the fields, who cook the food. >> reporter: brenda rodriguez, who fled an abusive relationship in mexico, has lived in the state for nearly 30 years. >> we did it so many years being under the channels, and i'm done. >> reporter: so when you hear these candidates who are running say that ...

The u.s.. and there's a lot of industries that already rely on these immigrants for labor. and jobs that unfortunately americans don't want to do. and that's the reality, whether people like it or not, that's the reality out there. and this area of the need for this immigrant labor and our economy, i think, that's an intersection where you may see some progress in the years to come. unfortunately, in the last few years, the business end of the republican party has not had a strong voice when it comes to trying to muster support for these kinds of measures, compromises on immigration reform. in...

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