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    GA: Big Farm complaining about lack of laborers

    If we are to believe these rich farmers who get subsidies from the American taxpayer and also subsidies from the Georgia taxpayers who pay their employees free healthcare, benefits, schooling for their far too many kids and additional costs for incarcerating them after they are caught committing crimes. well already migrants (illegal aliens) apparently heard on Spanish TV all about our new law and they won't come here to work.

    Unfortunately, the "migrants" who worked last year never left, nor the year before, etc. They just moved off the farms and into the arms of our public benefits systems. The law does not go into effect until July 1 but apparently they say it already has soured their slave labor supply. Keep in mind that Georgia is already subsidizing a half million illegal aliens, more than Arizona, estimated to have cost us over 2.5 Billion last year.

    http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-poli...ge-958782.html

    [quote]Migrant farmworkers are bypassing Georgia because of the state’s tough new immigration enforcement law, creating a severe labor shortage among fruit and vegetable growers here and potentially putting hundreds of millions of dollars in crops in jeopardy, agricultural industry leaders said this week.

    Meanwhile, the state’s Republican labor and agricultural commissioners are discussing issuing a joint statement in the coming days about what they intend to do about the labor shortage, a Labor Department spokesman confirmed Thursday.

    Charles Hall, executive director of the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association, said he has been in close contact with Labor Commissioner Mark Butler and Agricultural Commissioner Gary Black about the shortage, calling it the most severe he has seen. Hall said it's possible state officials could hold job fairs to steer some of Georgia’s unemployed workers to these farm jobs, which pay $12.50 an hour on average. The state’s unemployment rate is now at 9.9 percent.

    Farmers, however, say they often have little luck recruiting Georgia residents to work in their fields because it is temporary, hot and physically demanding. To recruit more workers, some farmers are offering signing bonuses, Hall said.

    The law doesn't take effect until July 1 but is already making migrant Hispanic farmworkers skittish, said Dick Minor, a partner with Minor Brothers Farm in Leslie in southwest Georgia who says he is missing about 50 of his workers now, threatening as much as a third of his crops.

    Some farmers who work in Georgia’s $1.1 billion fruit and vegetable industry are now reporting they have only two-thirds or half the workers they need now and for the weeks of harvesting to come, Hall said. Farmers said the full extent of the shortages won’t be known until the coming weeks as they harvest their remaining crops, including watermelons and sweet corn. Hall estimated such shortages could put as much as $300 million in crops at risk this year.

    John McKissick, who teaches and researches agricultural economics for the University of Georgia, said the farmers’ assertions about the labor shortage are plausible, but he could not independently confirm them.

    “I have certainly heard reports of shortages,â€

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    I bet they could get help if they advertise and pay a fair wage.Ill have to turn a deaf ear on these farmers they havent listened to us on how we are losing money on what illegals are stealing from us.Sorry about their helplessnes but they caused when thet started hiring them for their cheap labor.

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    At $12.50 an hour, people needed tax dollars for "assistance" should be told to work, or lose the assistance.

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    Prison Inmates

    Put the Prison Inmates to work. Not only would it pay for their incarceration, hence paying their debt to society, but they also relish the idea of getting out of their boring cells.
    They would also learn a great deal about farming and agriculture...Its a win win win situation all the way around...

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    You guys just have to click on this news story - it does nothing to help their cause when they put a sign on a pregnant belly. That is the problem!!!

    Sorry, I tried to copy the image for this post but just could not figure out how to do it. It is truly worth a thousand words. Idiots.

    Also, the immigration attorney Kuck said on the news that the law wouldn't work, that the "immigrants are going to leave" and then he said he would sue. Why? I thought he said the law wouldn't change anything?


    http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-poli...as-958322.html

    [quote]Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold an Arizona immigration enforcement law drew mixed reactions from supporters and opponents of a similar measure Georgia enacted this month.

    Charles Kuck, an Atlanta-area immigration attorney and past president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said the court’s decision will not dissuade him and others from challenging certain parts of Georgia’s House Bill 87 in court before the law takes effect July 1.

    “There are other parts of HB 87 that are and remain unconstitutional, and we will be going forward with litigation on those issues,â€

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    Re: Prison Inmates

    Quote Originally Posted by PaulRevere9
    Put the Prison Inmates to work. Not only would it pay for their incarceration, hence paying their debt to society, but they also relish the idea of getting out of their boring cells.
    They would also learn a great deal about farming and agriculture...Its a win win win situation all the way around...
    According to the California CDC that is cruel and unusual punishment having them work the fields. Just let them out early to terrorize our neighborhoods.
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    Several programs using prisoners was tried but stopped by the bleeding hearts and their lawyers. If Ga farmers are hurting that much then they need to start to pay decient wages and they will get their labor to tend the fields.

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    I am a Georgian----

    I am a Georgian---- we have over a half million illegal immigrants here per Fairus, Immigrationcounters and a few others.

    Theses folks supposedly came here to work in the fields. Well, perhaps they did the first year, but then they migrated to various parts of Georgia and various industries. They are about 11% of the population. Now the farmers who brought them here cannot get them to work on the farms because they are taking the jobs of the citizens and do not want to go back to the fields.

    So, the normal reaction is to bring in more illegals from Mexico, Central and South America and repeat the cycle in about 2 to 3 years. It won't be long before they constitute a third of the state. At which point unemployed Americans will be at about 20%.

    I give up. Our politicians are cowards. This propaganda effort by the ultra liberal AJC makes a mockery of truth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mickey
    QUICK SOMEBODY GRAB HER THROW HER BACK ACROSS THE BORDER BEFORE THIS ANCHOR DROPS!!!!!!

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