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Give American small business owners the choice between joining Mexico and making 300% profits for 10 years or remaining part of the US but paying $15 an hour for labor, and I am not sure the US will stay on the maps for long. They are very patriotic, as long as it doesn't hurt business. That is why we can't seem to stop the problem with illegal immigrants.
You are entirely correct. What gets me is that employers can get by with paying only $10.00/hr in this depressed rural segment of Colorado. That STILL isn't low enough for them, since they can pay illegals even less. We need to go directly to the root of the problem which includes but is not limited to the CEO's and management of Big Ag, the managers of most resort areas who keep their grounds prettied up with cheap labor, etc., etc. Anyone who is discovered hiring illegals should have to pay a huge fine - none of this $5 bucks and a wink-wink from the system. Those who are repeat offenders for illegal hiring practices should be sent off to jail for a very long time.
If the source of jobs for illegal’s dried up, there would be no more of this walking across the desert for days - and often dying of thirst - to reach the US and none of this being conned by Coyotes and left in the middle of nowhere, etc. With no jobs as a draw, many illegals would stay home. They might even form movements calling for the end of the repressive dictatorships that keep the people living under their fist spending their lives in poverty. An impossible fantasy? I think not. Just as we North Americans stood up to the British Crown and demanded our freedom, so did the people of Latin America (except for Brasil) stand up against their mighty Spanish overlords and gain freedom from their colonial masters way back in the 1820's.
It's so easy to blame the people who come here driven by hunger and desperate for work that simply is not available in their home countries. I can't blame anyone who only wants to work in order to support themselves and their families. This flow of illegal’s across our borders is a symptom, not the problem. Congress needs to get off its collective a**, and come up with an immigration policy that actually works - like severe sanctions imposed on those who hire illegal’s.
I like the Hispanic people. They are willing to be friendly if you start out by being friendly to them; they work hard; they play all sorts of great music that brighten up our airwaves, and their food is wonderful! Sadly, the US cannot take in every refugee in the world, including our neighbors to the south. There must be immigration laws, and they must be enforced. But as usual, it is the people on the lowest rung of the ladder who must endure that punishment, while the fat cats at the top who are responsible for this situation are never held accountable for their self-serving actions.
They are all cucumbers until they are processed into pickles
Even the big cucumbers that are processed into round slices can be found on the pickle shelf at supermarkets.
stick to well drilling .......
There are many vegetables that can be pickled...beets, onions,peppers, okra.....
At best it can be said that some varieties of cucumbers are better for pickling....but they are still....shockingly...still cucumbers. Lol!
No back to the topic...of sorts. During WWII many workers from Mexico came up to our area to harvest as manpower was in short supply during the war. Many stayed and their families are now 3rd and the start of the 4th generation American. For the op to say that Americans are only white or black only shows his personal bias and limited experience.
I live in California..sometimes I like to drive out into the country on an off day. I love being in nature and part of me has always wanted to be in the agricultural world. It would be something that I would like to do to be a farm worker for a summer or a season. However here in CA when I drive past the farms all I see is people from Mexico, in the towns surroundings the farms it's basically not the USA because everything is in Spanish. Like I said I would love to do some farmwork and gain some experience. My great grandparents worked in an orange packing house and as fruit pickers on a grove in what's now Irvine in the OC after they lost their business during the depression. Eventually they bought a plot in the San Gabriel Valley in LA county and after my grandpa (maternal) was born they sold it for what was a lot of money to a builder who developed it into a neighborhood which is now part of the city of Pasadena, there is even a street named after them (Langford Alley) since it was the Langford Farm.
I would like to try it, farming is part of my heritage. However I have no interest in being the only non Mexican, and being the only one of my coworkers that speaks English and is legal to work. I'm not interested in WWOOFING, I would like to get paid for my work. Something like fruit picking or even harvesting cash crops like tobacco or something in North Carolina.
Anywhere in America where farm workers are still white or black Americans?
There is nothing prejudice about wanting to work with people who can speak your own language and are not illegal, sheesh. Who cares what race anyone is. Do we have to bring "race" into everything nowadays?
No s***! It always never ceases to amaze me when someone brings up the race card based on something they interpreted to be racist. Has to make you wonder who the real racist is?
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