[ncountylee]

Kansas would be one of the less effected states under the criminal amnesty bill. Perhaps Brownback feels he can build some "get into heaven points" without hurting his reelection position. And Senator...you are no Ronald Reagan.

[Sometimes A River]

Illegals are all over Overland Park.

[aft_lizard]

Maybe, maybe not. In the beef industry alone in Kansas there are 129,000 employed of those its anybody guess as to how mny illegals are employed, but from my own personal experience and knowledge and meatpackers such as IBP,Excel,National there might be as much as 50% illegal hiring rates, we are talking plants with 3000+ employees each.

A few years back in Garden City, Kansas a Monfort beef plant burned down and the city went from 4% unemployment to 10%, the plant has yet to reopen and although the unemployment rate has dropped the new jobs that enter that town are mostly service sector, Stores,FastFood, and the other beefpacker only added a few jobs and the town has been slowly losing population since the fire.

Anyways there are a few towns in Kansas whose entire economy is built around the beef industry, Dodge City,Liberal, Garden City small towns that operate feed lots and etc. Those towns would be hit hard for awhile, the nations beef supply would be hit hard until they raise wages enough to make it a worthwhile job for most Americans, and then we will have to talk about the other effects such as 10 dollar a pound hamburger.

Dont get me wrong I am not for illegal immigration, I want a tight secure border were even if a guy farted on the border the stink cant drift across. But I am realistic and know that if it isnt done right some of these agricultural jobs wont be filled overnight by willing Americans unless farmer John has the money to pay you wages enough to do his work, thus we will have ourselves a recession.

[MarkL]

Kansas would be one of the less effected states under the criminal amnesty bill. Perhaps Brownback feels he can build some "get into heaven points" without hurting his reelection position. And Senator...you are no Ronald Reagan.

I don't think that you're right about the sheer number of illegal aliens in Kansas. First off, if you go to KCK, there are plenty of parts of town where you will NOT hear English spoken at all. Many fast food places have people working there who barely speak English at all. And it's been my experience that at many meat packing plants, nearly everyone is Hispanic. I have no idea what percentage might be illegal aliens, but the vast majority of production floor workers are hispanic.

Mark