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A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, is speaking out against a plan to grant temporary protective status to an estimated 30,000 Haitians in the country illegally, saying it sounds like the Democrats trying to score political points off a natural disaster.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have a halted all deportations do to the earthquake that struck the country this week. But the immigrants have not been granted temporary protective status, which is given to illegal immigrants who cannot safely return home. The designation would allow them to live and work freely in the United States until conditions in Haiti improve and the status could be revoked.
King told ABC News that doing so would create political controvery.
“This sounds to me like open borders advocates exercising the Rahm Emanuel axiom: ‘Never let a crisis go to waste,’” Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said in an e-mail message to ABCNews. “Illegal immigrants from Haiti have no reason to fear deportation, but if they are deported, Haiti is in great need of relief workers, and many of them could be a big help to their fellow Haitians.”
The Sioux City Journal’s Bret Hayworth points out that King didn’t get Emanuel’s axiom correct.
King doesn’t quite get Emanuel’s quote from 2008 right — it is, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.”
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