Beto O’Rourke Says US Guest-Worker Program Would Help Slow Inflation
- He’s vying to be first Democratic Texas governor in 30 years
- Says allowing temporary workers would tamp down border chaos
Beto O'Rourke during The Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, on Sept. 24.
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Beto O’Rourke, the Democrat running for Texas governor, said his plan for a guest-worker program would help slow inflation and alleviate a worker shortage that plagues agriculture and other US industries.
“A Texas-based guest-worker program allows us to meet our economic opportunity, the needs that we have in our economy -- supply chain problems, inflation issues,” O’Rourke said at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin on Saturday. “Texas, the defining border and immigrant state, could lead the way for our country.”