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Stephen Colbert to Trek to Capitol Hill to Testify on Immigration Reform

By: Ted Johnson
Published: Wed, September 22, 2010, 12:31 PM
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He's staging a satirical rally in Washington on Oct. 30, but Stephen Colbert will be on Capitol Hill on Friday, apparently in all states of semi-seriousness, to testify for immigration reform.

Colbert will be before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law along with Arturo Rodriguez, president of the United Farm Workers.

The two appeared on a segment of "The Colbert Report" in August in which the Comedy Central star spent a day working at a farm in New York, UFW has been in the midst of a "Take Our Jobs" campaign in which U.S. citizens are invited to take the jobs of immigrant field workers.

Posted: Wed, September 22, 2010, 12:09 PM

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