Colbert Congress
Today saw Stephen Colbert address congress regarding the claims undocumented immigrants are taking work away from Americans. Colbert addressed the issue on behalf of the UFW (United Farm Workers) who have been raising awareness about the fact this isn't true regarding farm work and that regular Americans would rather be on welfare and unemployed than spend a day doing hard manual work on farms.
Colbert spent a day working in the fields, and he testified that he will never do it again. Unfortunately, Colbert chose to make his remarks as humorous as possible, and while his speech is entertaining, I don’t think anyone took him seriously. Rep. Steve King has already said he felt that Colbert was mocking the hearing process, and since much of Colbert’s humor revolves around mocking the political process, that’s a reasonable assumption. It appears that the hearing was more about drawing attention to the comic than about the employment issue.
