Amnesty and Illegal Immigration
Many people cross the border into America in search of a better life, more pay and a desire to work. Most of them lack proper paperwork and work illegally as manual laborers or farmworkers.
Day Without An Immigrant: Rally In Tampa
Immigrants nationwide stayed away from their jobs and out of stores to make a point - that the U.S. economy needs them.
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A House bill passed in December requires employers to verify the legal status of alien workers. The Senate is taking up the debate with calls for harsh penalties for illegal aliens.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's 2002 Census of Agriculture shows that migrant farmworkers helped generate a combined $864.5 million in crop values in Polk, Pasco, Hillsborough and Manatee counties in 2002.
More than 11 million people are in the U.S. illegally, a population larger than Ohio's. One in 20 U.S. workers is undocumented.
The Senate sidetracked sweeping immigration legislation Friday amid partisan recriminations, leaving in doubt prospects for passage of a measure that offered the hope of citizenship to millions of men, women and children living in the United States illegally.
Story from Associated Press