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Originally Posted by dga
Lastly, have you seen a green card??? If employers would like to pretend they were duped that is one thing, but that they were actually duped is doubtful. The last one I saw had the faces of all 52 presidents on a magnetic strip that you could only see with a magnifying glass.
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Yes, I am well aware farmers don't even look at the cards. Hence the big lawsuit in Canyon County, Idaho.
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9th district presided
plus some say it was presented in with a flawed approach.
A lady friend of mine from near that area told me her husband ( a farmer) would have trouble finding workers if he didn't hire Mexicans and Guatemalans (she didn't specify legal or illegal, but it's pretty well known in those parts "papers" are not scrutinized). I asked her if I was younger and in good health and walked up and asked him for a job picking, what would be my chances. She never answered me.
Yet the same area just saw two life blood processing plants shut down. One went to Canada- and it processes veggies grown in
that town! This was a result of buying off the old school union employees and getting a crappy new contract. Thing that's funny the place is owned as a co-op by local farmers.
Bet they'll be singing a different tune when they have to compete with NAFTA partners on the vegetable market!
The other point is the people who were laid off at the plants (whole towns in some cases) could be out there picking fruit. They worked with Mexican Americans and white Americans at the plant-why should it be any different in the field?
To answer my own question-because the field is full.
We don't need
legal or
illegal pickers in that town. In some others like little desert casino towns, I can see they would have a hard time getting workers without recruiting from Bolivia and such.
But our immigration policy needs updating as it has been updated throughout the years. (I might add Texas has never complied).
What people were against (on both sides of the political fence) is
another amnesty.
Because every time the American people went along with it we were
lied to. There was the amnesty and nothing was done about illegals much less revamp the work visa system. All we got out of the Regan amnesty program was a national I.D. card! (S.S.)