Daily Border Bulletin - Holder's FF testimony in full, AZ favors pathway to citizenship, "why Americans wont do dirty jobs"

Attorney General testimony before Congress touches on Fast Furious program: Attorney General Eric Holder appeared before the Senate Judiciary committee for an oversight hearing on Monday his full testimony can be seen here. In his testimony he takes the time to elaborate on the flaws inherent in gun walking, and the need to stop guns from flowing from the United States into Mexican drug cartels:  "I want to be clear: any instance of so-called “gun walking” is unacceptable. Regrettably, this tactic was used as part of Fast and Furious, which was launched to combat gun trafficking and violence on our Southwest Border. This operation was flawed in concept, as well as in execution. And, unfortunately, we will feel its effects for years to come as guns that were lost during this operation continue to show up at crimes scenes both here and in Mexico. This should never have happened. And it must never happen again."

Poll shows Arizonans favor an overhaul of our immigration system:  An Arizona State University poll shows that 78 percent of Arizonans favor reform of our federal immigration system which gives undocumented immigrants a pathway to citizenship. "The poll by ASU's Morrison Institute for Public Policy found that 78 percent of Arizonans would support legislation letting longtime undocumented immigrants become citizens if they also paid a fine, passed criminal background checks, paid taxes and show they can speak English."

Alabama has jobs. trouble is, Americans don't want them: A story examines how the exodus of immigrant workers from Alabama has left many jobs open, with no Americans filling the positions: "There’s no shortage of people he could give those jobs to. In Alabama, some 211,000 people are out of work. In rural Perry County, where Harvest Select is located, the unemployment rate is 18.2 percent, twice the national average. One of the big selling points of the immigration law was that it would free up jobs that Republican Governor Robert Bentley said immigrants had stolen from recession-battered Americans. Yet native Alabamians have not come running to fill these newly liberated positions. Many employers think the law is ludicrous and fought to stop it. Immigrants aren’t stealing anything from anyone, they say. Businesses turned to foreign labor only because they couldn’t find enough Americans to take the work they were offering."