[MayflowerMadam]

“I don’t know who is paying him...maybe Tyson chicken...but he always wants more illegals here.”

I get why the elite want illegals here — nannies, housekeepers, landscape work. They can pay them a pittance with cash. But companies like Tyson ... wouldn’t they have to pay illegals the same rate as they pay everyone else? Or do they pay “off the books”? I guess I don’t understand the issue totally.

[OKSooner]

***Ahem*** Lankford's first constituency, actually, is the Southern Baptist Church, which is schizo in it's flailing between Conservative Christianity and more recently (last 50 years or so) its white racial guilt, born from its support of slavery back in antebellum days.

Can't say they're quite as visible as Catholic Charities in their logistical support of the invasion (Dubya's faith-based initiatives, don't you know), but yeah... we all God's chilluns...

But yes of course you're right about certain big ag, COC interests as well. To a venal, ambitious ** like Lankford it's a career opportunity. Seriously, one can't help but wonder if Mitch is grooming him for (possibly) minority leader.