1||September 24, 2010: Stephen Colbert testifies before a House Judiciary Subcommittee on behalf of the United Farm Workers Union, which is pushing an agriculture jobs bill to give illegal immigrant farm workers a path to citizenship. Colbert spent a day in August as a farm worker as a part of the UFW’s “Take Our Jobs” program. Said Colbert, in character: “This is America. I don’t want a tomato picked by a Mexican. I want it picked by an American. Then sliced by a Guatemalan, and served by a Venezuelan in a spa where a Chilean gives me a Brazilian.” ||Newscom/Sipa&&
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