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Originally Posted by saltwn
Yes, I am well aware farmers don't even look at the cards. Hence the big lawsuit in Canyon County, Idaho. Court dumps lawsuit targeting companies that hire illegals | Immigration | eastvalleytribune.com
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.) |
I agree. The last time the amnesty was done, it was the time to close the borders and solve the problem so more illegals did not come through. Of course this is the whole issue in the other thread we've been discussing. I truly do not know the answer or the solution, unless the government does it right this time. I just feel (to relate to this topic) that all said it should not be American children that are penalized. To a certain degree the government does hold some responsibility in allowing people to filter through the border (because it is hard for me to believe that with all our technology, that can see through walls in Iraq we are unable to secure a desert area - - but again, off the point, lol). Will they do it right this time? I doubt it, because one thing is if they can, quite another if they want to.
If the solution is to deport all 12m+ illegals, I feel bad for them I do, but if that is the solution so be it. The state of the present economy, unemployment rates, high fuel and food costs, etc. have to do with bad governance, not with illegals.