Thread: Fresno's City Hall to be site of rally

Fresno's City Hall to be site of rally
Environmentalist's comments about farmworkers incite.
Saturday, Feb. 07, 2009

The Fresno Bee

A rally at Fresno City Hall on Monday will highlight central San Joaquin Valley farms' need for water and discuss perceptions about Hispanic farmworkers.

The 10:30 a.m. rally will include elected officials such as Assembly Member Juan Arambula, D-Fresno, and Fresno County Supervisor Phil Larson. Manuel Cunha, president of the Fresno-based Nisei Farmers League, farmers and farmworkers also will be present.

The rally is in response to recent comments from Lloyd Carter, a board member of the California Water Impact Network, said Mario Santoyo of the California Latino Water Coalition, the rally's organizer.

After a recent debate between San Joaquin Valley farm water officials and environmentalists at California State University, Fresno, Carter spoke to KMPH (Channel 26) about farmworkers who would lose their jobs if west side Valley farms don't receive delta water this year.

"They're not even American citizens for starters, right?" he said.

"Do you think that we should employ illegal aliens? What parent raises their child to become a farmworker? These kids, they're the least educated people in America or in the southwest corner of this Valley. They turn to lives of crime. They go on welfare. They get into drug trafficking and they join gangs."

http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/11 ... _Container

Oops, sorry, wrong kind of rally. Seems you can't tell the truth anymore as the illegal alien patrol gets offended.

"Do you think that we should employ illegal aliens? What parent raises their child to become a farmworker? These kids, they're the least educated people in America or in the southwest corner of this Valley. They turn to lives of crime. They go on welfare. They get into drug trafficking and they join gangs."

Free education for every child, legal or illegal, in this country will convince them farm work is no future. So crops rot in the fields and there is a need for more cheap labor, who pops out a passle of kids, who also get educated at our expense and realize farm work is no future, which means........

We need mechanization. A machine can be designed now to pick nearly anything. And other operations in agriculture need technical updating. Or else, there is no way we will be able to compete with Third World agribusinesses than can pay real slave wages.

I think I heard somewhere that out of all the illegal invaders here only 2-3% have anything to do with agriculture. 23% are milking some sort of social benefits.

We need to go after the traitors in the government before we will ever see anything done about the criminals in business.

I hope they get some coverage on the news.




Did you see the link one of the posters left in the comment section?

http://api.cde.ca.gov/AcntRpt2008/20...-62364-1034990

Don't need mechanization when you have farm labor contractors. Now days a farmer just has to own the field, and the cheap labor will take care of everything. It is just too bad our communities are getting trashed. I am one of those having to take a two day a month furlough. How do you think I feel when the Mexicans are still on social programs, overcrowding our schools and prisons, sending money across the border, using our ERs as free primary care clinics, getting pregnant as teens, and all the while not able or wanting to speak English.

In the Great/other little Depression they set up road blocks to keep Americans from other parts of the country out of the central valley and away from the jobs of picking crop, if I got my history and my television watching correct.

"I hope they get some coverage on the news."
They already have news coverage, and it is all on the side of the illiterate criminals who snuck across the border. Even the arambula guy is Mexican.

Originally Posted by AF

"I hope they get some coverage on the news."
They already have news coverage, and it is all on the side of the illiterate criminals who snuck across the border. Even the arambula guy is Mexican.

Ya but I'd like to see them on the six o'clock news parading up and down the streets waving their flags and demanding stuff like they did around 2006 (wasn't it?).

Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein's beloved greedy, cheap a$$ rich San Joaquin farmers are already "outsourcing" their farming operations to Mexico. They're just right across the border still exploiting Mexican workers and making sure we don't run short of fresh produce here contaminated with Salmonella, Hepatitis and other infectious diseases that proliferate in that part of the farming industry when you use raw sewage water to irrigate crops and utilize a part of the population who have no clue to what hygeine is and couldn't care less about it to hand pick your salad veggies.

Mechanization should have happened a long time ago and everything Mr. Carter said in that article is exact and right on about illegal aliens.

Originally Posted by AF

Don't need mechanization when you have farm labor contractors. Now days a farmer just has to own the field, and the cheap labor will take care of everything. It is just too bad our communities are getting trashed. I am one of those having to take a two day a month furlough. How do you think I feel when the Mexicans are still on social programs, overcrowding our schools and prisons, sending money across the border, using our ERs as free primary care clinics, getting pregnant as teens, and all the while not able or wanting to speak English.

AMEN, IT REALLY MAKES YOU MAD AS HELL DON'T IT THEY CAN HOLD DOWN JOBS AND STILL BE ABLE TO TO STILL BE ON SOCIAL PROGRAMS. BUT AMERICAN CITIZENS AND LEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE THE ONES WHO ARE ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN. I HAVE KNOWN SO MANY AMERICANS WHO ARE NO LONGER WITH US BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE SYSTEM IN THIS COUNTRY TREATS ITS OWN CITIZENS COMPARED TO THE WAY THEY TREAT THOSE WHO CROSSED THE BORDER ILLEGALLY. WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR GOVERNMENT ITS ALMOST LIKE WE ARE THE ONES WHO ARE HERE ILLEGALLY THE WAY WE ARE TREATED BY OUR VERY OWN GOVERNMENT. ILLEGALS HAVE MORE RIGHTS THAN WE DO. THERE IS A LOT WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE AND IT NEEDS TO BE CORRECTED