Business, Agriculture, and Immigrant Leaders from Across South Dakota Will Discuss Urgently Needed Immigration Reform in Virtual Roundtable
South Dakota’s Immigrants, Essential Industries, and Economic Engines Need Congress to Act Now to Stabilize Our COVID-19 Response and Support Our State’s Economy
PIERRE, SD — Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 19, 2021, business and agriculture leaders from across South Dakota will join one of our state’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients in a virtual roundtable to discuss urgently needed immigration reform and why Congress should act swiftly to fix our broken system. Featuring representatives from some of the state’s largest industries and business groups, the roundtable will specifically highlight the $678 million impact immigrants and immigrant workers have on our state economy and essential workforce.
In South Dakota and across the nation, undocumented immigrants are playing a significant role in our COVID-19 response efforts and have long been enriching South Dakota’s communities, culture, and economy. With more than 23 million undocumented essential workers in America — including more than 200,000 DACA recipient essential workers — contributing to industries such as agriculture, health care, education, construction, and sanitation, the stakes couldn’t be higher to enact commonsense immigration reform.
Congress should enact needed reform that would allow our economy and communities to grow.
Join David Owen, President and CEO, SD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Debra Owen, Policy Director, Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Nathan Sanderson, Executive Director, SD Retailers Association, Don Haggar, Executive Director, Americans for Prosperity — SD, Tom Peterson, Executive Director, SD Dairy Producers, Kari Karst, President and CEO, BX Civil & Construction and Dells Materials Company, and Karen Benitez-Lopez, a teacher and DACA recipient from Sioux Falls for this important discussion on the need to establish bipartisan, commonsense solutions to advance immigration reform legislation and the opportunity at hand for Congress and the Biden Administration to reform the U.S. immigration system.
What: Virtual Roundtable on South Dakota’s Urgent Need for Immigration Reform
Who:
David Owen, President and CEO, SD Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Debra Owen, Policy Director, Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce
Dr. Nathan Sanderson, Executive Director, SD Retailers Association
Don Haggar, Executive Director, Americans for Prosperity — SD
Tom Peterson, Executive Director, SD Dairy Producers
Kari Karst, President and CEO, BX Civil & Construction and Dells Materials Company
Karen Benitez-Lopez, Teacher and ‘Dreamer’
When: May 19, 2021 from 1:30–2:15 p.m. CDT
Where: Zoom — Register Here
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Maybe since his first day in the Senate, Mike Rounds has been diligently working across the aisle trying to find a solution. Unfortunately, most of both parties prefer nothing done for political purposes and campaign fundraising.
Instead of mamby-pamby bromides like this and faux actions, how about they work their colleagues and chambers in other states to give Senator Rounds some help?
P.S. I know why they do this. They have been part of the problem since the beginning and never serious about consensus reform because the status quo is in reality preferable to them than any likely comprehensive reform.
23,000,000 undocumented essential workers?????????
Oh ya, illegal aliens meaning cheap labor and Democrat votes.
the only reason our immigration system is broken is because people keep breaking the laws we already have.
Now the people who broke the law (and the system) are going to tell the rest of us we should fix it?
This kind of dishonest headline doesn’t fly anymore Pat. I know it’s worked for a long time so i understand why you would continue to try to make it fly. In the meantime we’ll eagerly await your post regarding Dusty’s impending vote in favor of the Jan 6th investigation.
What are you talking about? The headline was press release headline.
What’s wrong with supporting the investigation? I thought people “just wanted the truth” and if there is nothing there, “What are you afraid of?”
Can we stop the NewSpeak and call people here illegally illegal aliens? I think common sense would include having a border that it is illegal to cross without permission from the citizens of the country. Without a border we have no country.
I understand that kids who were brought here by their parents’ illegal act are in a tight spot, but that doesn’t mean that we need to let any new people come in freely with total disregard of our laws.
I don’t think common sense is going to prevail, and the Democrats simply want to get new voters and the heck with the citizens of America so long as the Democrats can get more power in their grubby hands.
Human trafficking.
Great, let’s just keep devaluing the worth of the American dollar and American citizenship.
Everyone worldwide should be automatically granted American citizenship. I mean, it’s what the globalists (many whom are working in our Govt systems at all level btw) are after.