Barbour: Immigrant Labor Needed

Former Mississippi Governor Notes Even Prisoners Won't Take Some Jobs

Jerry Hagstrom
By  Jerry Hagstrom , DTN Political Correspondent
Congress and the Obama administration are at odds over immigration policy after executive orders from the president would allow millions of people to remain in the United States. (DTN file photo by Chris Clayton)
Congress and the Obama administration are at odds over immigration policy after executive orders from the president would allow millions of people to remain in the United States. (DTN file photo by Chris Clayton)
Congress should reform the immigration system because even prisoners do not want to work in chicken plants, former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour told the International Dairy Foods Association.

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Jerry Hagstrom

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