Colbert To Testify Before Congress Tomorrow

Stephen Colbert is scheduled to testifyon Friday, September 24th on immigration issues. This doesn't appear to be a joke.

This is related to the "Take Our Jobs" program that was launched in July to help illustrate the myth that illegal aliens are taking jobs away from Americans. I posted the info in the Arizona Immigration thread a couple of months ago.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/stephen-colbert-testify-congress-republicans-laughing/story?id=11708891&page=1

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UFW president Arturo Rodriguez appeared on Colbert's show in July and invited the comedian to experience the life of an immigrant farm worker firsthand.

More than three million people have visited the Take Our Jobs Web site and 8,600 expressed interest in the farm jobs, according to the UFW. But only seven have actually accepted the offer.

Colbert was one of them.

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Colbert recently spent a day as a vegetable picker on a farm in upstate New York, participating in the United Farm Workers' Take Our Jobs campaign. The program has offered citizens and legal residents jobs as field laborers working alongside thousands of other farm workers, most of whom are undocumented.

In any case, the hearing will be televised, so catch it if you can. I'm sure that C-SPAN will re-air the hearing, and always posts replays of hearings on its web site.

Catch it while it's up. CSpan's attempting to lock it down.