Colbert Congress

Colbert Congress:Comic scientist Stephen Colbert, with tongue in cheek, but aims to whip, blustered his way into the character of a four-minute speech about immigration reform before the House subcommittee on Friday morning.
His message: Working on a farm so hard that Americans do not want to do this because of immigration and labor laws should be reformed to illegal workers culture pure path to citizenship.
“I do not want to take on Mexican tomatoes,” Colbert revealed. “I want to take on the U.S., cut to Guatemala … and served in the Spa, where the Chilean gives me a Brazilian.”
Colbert, geekily gracious host satirical Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report”, was a magnet for media professionals, giggling Hill staff members and protesters from the place of war.
His posture was ramrod straight, his black suit, crimson tie, crisp shirt, his hair parted ways – perhaps ideologically – on the left.
Chairman of the Subcommittee immigration, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., Compared with Colbert Bono. She thanked him for using his celebrity to highlight the situation of undocumented farm workers, who make up 50 percent to 75 percent of the seasonal workers’ culture.
“Maybe we should spend less time watching Comedy Central and more time thinking about real jobs that are out there,” said Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who added that he respected the American workers who “prefer the aroma of fresh dirt than sewage of the American elite. ”
Colbert smiled a broad, clear respect for the dig.
Detected for the segment, Colbert attended last month in the United farm workers’ Take our jobs “program, designed to illustrate the fact that illegal agricultural workers are not taking jobs that Americans are willing to do. Of the 8,600 requests, only seven people have full-time farmworking work under the program.
Colbert says the day of collection of beans from the illegal immigrants had convinced him that agricultural work is “very, very hard.”
“It turns out – and I do not know what it is – most of the soil at ground level,” Colbert said. In addition, “It was hotter than I wanted to be.”
He asked the legislators to do something about the problem of farm labor because “I’m not going back there.”
House bill, which creates a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants has been filed, and another is currently being developed in the Senate, but Congress due to recess rather focus on the fall elections. Bills, or parts of them may come in the “lame duck” session after the vote in November.
At the end of the hearing, Colbert dropped his television persona and became serious, he said, using his celebrity to draw attention to farm labor, because “they seem to be at least of my brothers.”
“We migrant workers are suffering and have no rights,” he said.
His message: Working on a farm so hard that Americans do not want to do this because of immigration and labor laws should be reformed to illegal workers culture pure path to citizenship.
“I do not want to take on Mexican tomatoes,” Colbert revealed. “I want to take on the U.S., cut to Guatemala … and served in the Spa, where the Chilean gives me a Brazilian.”
Colbert, geekily gracious host satirical Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report”, was a magnet for media professionals, giggling Hill staff members and protesters from the place of war.
His posture was ramrod straight, his black suit, crimson tie, crisp shirt, his hair parted ways – perhaps ideologically – on the left.
Chairman of the Subcommittee immigration, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., Compared with Colbert Bono. She thanked him for using his celebrity to highlight the situation of undocumented farm workers, who make up 50 percent to 75 percent of the seasonal workers’ culture.
“Maybe we should spend less time watching Comedy Central and more time thinking about real jobs that are out there,” said Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who added that he respected the American workers who “prefer the aroma of fresh dirt than sewage of the American elite. ”
Colbert smiled a broad, clear respect for the dig.
Detected for the segment, Colbert attended last month in the United farm workers’ Take our jobs “program, designed to illustrate the fact that illegal agricultural workers are not taking jobs that Americans are willing to do. Of the 8,600 requests, only seven people have full-time farmworking work under the program.
Colbert says the day of collection of beans from the illegal immigrants had convinced him that agricultural work is “very, very hard.”
“It turns out – and I do not know what it is – most of the soil at ground level,” Colbert said. In addition, “It was hotter than I wanted to be.”
He asked the legislators to do something about the problem of farm labor because “I’m not going back there.”
House bill, which creates a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants has been filed, and another is currently being developed in the Senate, but Congress due to recess rather focus on the fall elections. Bills, or parts of them may come in the “lame duck” session after the vote in November.
At the end of the hearing, Colbert dropped his television persona and became serious, he said, using his celebrity to draw attention to farm labor, because “they seem to be at least of my brothers.”
“We migrant workers are suffering and have no rights,” he said.