Latino Hits ‘Slavery’ in Immigration Plans
The chairman of the National Hispanic Leadership Conference vowed Sunday to fight proposed immigration policy changes that would make it easier for farmers to hire foreign laborers.
Tony Bonilla said the changes “would create a form of government-sanctioned slavery.”
The New York Times reported Sunday that the proposed changes include removing the requirement in certain instances that farmers search for American workers.
Alan C. Nelson, commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said the new rules would make the foreign worker program “more available and usable to more growers, so they will use legal rather than illegal, aliens.”
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