Which two States?
Before you start arguing that many of the illegals hold important jobs that Americans won’t take, look at what happened in Alabama when they passed one of the toughest immigration laws of any state. One of their provisions levied hefty fines against employers hiring illegals, and that includes agriculture jobs.I think the other one is MississippiMany of Alabama’s farmers said that without the illegals they would have no way to harvest their crops and it would financially ruin them. Yet, after the bill was passed, I never heard any news stories about acres of valuable crops left rotting in the fields because there was no one to harvest them. It seems that they fared okay after all.
After only two months of the enforcement of their tough immigration law, Alabama’s unemployment rate fell from 9.8% to 8.7%. That’s a huge drop in just two months and was directly attributed to the fact that hundreds of thousands of illegals left the state and employers were forced to hire American citizens.
"Illegal immigration has real consequences for Mississippi, as it puts additional burdens on our already stretched budget," Bryant said in a news release. "This executive order will help ensure that public benefits go to only those persons who are lawfully eligible."The info about unemployment going down and the economy going up in two states because of their laws I read about here at FR some time ago.He said the executive order "does not change or modify Mississippi law," which already bans state agencies from providing unemployment payments, food stamps or other benefits to people who are in the United States illegally.