Sharp words over immigration in Pennsylvania

“Starkly contrasting views of immigration clashed in a state House hearing yesterday that left Pennsylvania no closer to defining and resolving the problem than the state line is to the Rio Grande.

During the four-hour hearing, several heated exchanges erupted between lawmakers and witnesses. One prosecutor depicted illegal immigrants as criminals. Union leaders said many industries in the state would collapse without immigrant labor. And school administrators in one central Pennsylvania district with a high immigrant population, finding themselves caught in the crossfire, were forced to defend their obligation to educate all children regardless of citizenship.”

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