The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce is calling on Minnesota’s members of Congress to protect so-called “Dreamers” as a first step to changing the nation’s outdated immigration system. The Chamber, which represents 23-hundred businesses, disagrees with President Trump’s stand. Spokesman Bill Blazar says, “With all due respect to the president, he ought to stop off and visit a few businesses in Minneapolis or Warroad or Winona or Mankato.” Blazar says every business they talk to in Minnesota has challenges finding enough employees, and people from around the world are a key source of workers. Opponents of the “Dream Act” say people in the U-S illegally are taking jobs from American workers.
Blazar says protecting “Dreamers” is only the first step — that Congress should pass legislation addressing the roughly 11 million who entered the country without authorization but have been full participants in the economy and pay taxes. He says the U-S should also move away from an immigration quota system.
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