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Old 05-25-2017, 03:34 PM
 
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Convict labor is the answer. CA prisons are dangerously overcrowded and the inmates spend their time, well I'd better not say. Now if the politicians would only allow a sentence of hard labor, things would be better for prisoners.
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Old 05-25-2017, 03:39 PM
 
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Convict labor is the answer. CA prisons are dangerously overcrowded and the inmates spend their time, well I'd better not say. Now if the politicians would only allow a sentence of hard labor, things would be better for prisoners.
Ahh good ol slave labor. Yup nothing says developed nation then the one with the highest % of prisoners going all in on slavery.
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Old 05-25-2017, 03:45 PM
 
Location: Kansas
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Only 4% of illegal aliens do farm work and there are an unlimited number of temp visas available for that. It would mean giving up the slave labor and having to pay minimum wage and other benefits, thus there constant chatter about retaining their illegal alien slave labor.

You mean, CA keeps people in prison? They need to release them as many have families and children and were the only breadwinner for the family.
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Old 05-25-2017, 03:47 PM
 
Location: Kansas
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4% of illegal aliens do farm work. There is an unlimited amount of agricultural visas available, but that would take away the exploitation element which is so popular with those that favor the present of illegal aliens.
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Old 05-25-2017, 03:48 PM
 
Location: Pacific Beach/San Diego
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California spends more on incarceration than higher education. The Supreme Court said we had to either build more prisons or let people out because of prisons were often times holding double the capacity of inmates that the prisons were intended to hold. A really bad three-strikes law had made for some ridiculous sentences - - and that law just changed only two or four years ago.
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Old 05-25-2017, 03:50 PM
 
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Trump Threats, Minimum Wage, Overtime Hitting California Farmers Hard « CBS Sacramento

Meanwhile American youth who could be doing the job are doing nothing and eating themselves to an early grave from type II diabetes.
Another corporate shill.
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Old 05-25-2017, 03:50 PM
 
Location: On the Chesapeake
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As a note, just so you don't think you're special, most, if not all, states spend more on prisons than education.
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Old 05-25-2017, 03:53 PM
 
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Currently I am living in Central Mexico. I know men who have gone to work in US fields, some with permits, most without permits. Keep in mind many of these migrant workers are illiterate in their native language; have no car to travel to a consulate to apply for a permit, etc. In the past, they hitch rides north and cross on their own (no coyotes). They work for several month, come back home.

I've talked to a number of them and NONE of them are going to "trump's America" this year. They are po.d....trump called them rapists, etc.

On the plus side, the MXN economy is doing fairly well.
Good, maybe it will improve and they'll stop coming here. But the Left cannot have that. If that happens, that means their plot to fundamentally transform America will be foiled.

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Convict labor is the answer. CA prisons are dangerously overcrowded and the inmates spend their time, well I'd better not say. Now if the politicians would only allow a sentence of hard labor, things would be better for prisoners.
Perfectly legal in fact via the 13th Amendment.
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Old 05-25-2017, 03:59 PM
 
Location: El paso,tx
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Maybe we can require people on welfare/foodstamps to do some of this fieldwork....don't want to work? No welfare for you...
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Old 05-25-2017, 03:59 PM
 
Location: Pacific Beach/San Diego
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As a note, just so you don't think you're special, most, if not all, states spend more on prisons than education.
Nope - - only 11 states (maybe a couple of more over the last two years - - it was 7 back in 2010):

11 states spend more on prisons than on higher education - Oct. 1, 2015
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