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The Georgia Senate Run Off Election & Federal Minimum Wage Rates For Illegal Immigrants

 

In a few short weeks, voters in Georgia will head back to the polls to cast their vote in two Senate run off elections between Republican Senator David Perdue and challenger Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler and Democrat Raphael Warnock.

With the outcome of that race determining whether Republicans or Democrats will have majority control of the U.S. Senate, there has been a lot of attention paid to these run off elections.  Of note, Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff made news this past weekend at a campaign event.  In response to a question from an attendee at the event, Ossoff stated that he believed illegal immigrants should be paid the federal minimum wage rate.  In his remarks, Ossoff stated that federal immigration authorities should be in charge of ensuring this federal minimum wage rate is paid to these workers.

Ossoff has argued that a large swath of workers in the state’s agriculture sector are comprised of Latino immigrants, some of whom are illegal aliens, are taken advantage of because of their illegal status.  According to Ossoff, these workers are paid less than the federal minimum wage rate and are abused by employers.  It follows, according to Ossoff, that if these illegal immigrants are paid the federal minimum wage rate, employers would not be able to continue to abuse or taken advantage of them by paying them a substandard wage rate.

Whether Ossoff would actually be able to implement a change to the pay rate for illegal immigrants if he were elected to the Senate remains to be seen.  Depending the outcome of the run off election in January, we might just see.  Stay tuned.


For additional information:  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ossoff-ice-illegal-immigrants-paid-minimum-wage

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