Thread: ID-Lawmakers turn down immigration bill

Feb 19, 2010
Lawmakers turn down immigration bill

A House committee killed one of three illegal immigration-related bills in the 2010 Legislature, a move that bodes ill for two measures pending in the Senate. The State Affairs Committee shot down a plan from Republican Reps. Raul Labrador and Phil Hart Thursday that could have meant suspending a business's license for a year, if it was caught knowingly hiring illegal workers. Business groups including the Idaho Dairyman's Association and Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry opposed the measure, on grounds it could hurt Idaho's fragile economy and such immigration reforms remain a federal issue. Hart said he was disappointed but suspects the other bills now in the Senate State Affairs Committee ``wouldn't do any better'' than his own on the off-chance they survive the Senate and make it to the House committee.

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Business groups including the Idaho Dairyman's Association and Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry opposed the measure, on grounds it could hurt Idaho's fragile economy and such immigration reforms remain a federal issue.

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 Idaho's "fragile" economy will get alot worse when Americans can no longer afford to buy their products.   :roll:

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Farmers, retailers, IACI, ICAN oppose Rep. Hart’s immigration legislation

Posted by Betsy at 9:16 a.m. on February 18 Comments (4)

2010 Idaho Legislature

Brent Olmstead, lobbyist for the Milk Producers of Idaho, said an array of groups oppose HB 497, Rep. Phil Hart’s immigration bill, and they include the Food Producers of Idaho, the Idaho Farm Bureau, the Idaho Retailers Association, the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry, and more. Rep. Brent Crane, R-Nampa, noted that it’s just one of three bills on the topic pending in this year’s Legislature; he asked Olmstead which bill his coalition, the Idaho Business Coalition for Immigration Reform, is backing. “We will likely as a coalition not support any of them,â€