"Colbert will testify alongside United Farm Workers President Arturo S. Rodriguez to discuss the UFW's summer 'Take Our Jobs' campaign, in which the group invited U.S. citizens and legal residents to replace immigrant field laborers."
For more information on the United Farm Workers, click here.
The "Take Our Jobs" campaign was an effort to "debunk the theory that immigrant laborers are taking jobs away from U.S. citizens and documented workers. Rodriguez appeared on The Colbert Report and Colbert agreed "to participate in the challenge after Rodriguez reported that only four people had signed up to work in the fields."
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Posted: 09/24/2010
