Thread: No Quick Fix for Immigration Reform

No Quick Fix for Immigration Reform
3/5/2010
By Catherine Merlo


In small San Joaquin Valley farming communities, such as Buttonwillow, Calif., illegal immigration is a fact of life.

Buttonwillow’s flat sprawling fields and orchards draw hundreds of farm workers each year. They come—somehow, someway—from Mexico and El Salvador to work cotton, tomatoes, corn, onions, carrots, cabbage, wheat, pistachios and almonds.

Despite the seemingly legal documents presented to farmers, this foreign-born workforce is likely 75% unauthorized.

That’s the reality of the hired farm labor force across the U.S. today, says Craig Regelbrugge, co-chair of the Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform.

Regelbrugge is among those leading the charge for immigration reform and an overhaul of the guest-worker program.

“No issue is as fundamental to the survivalâ€

Give the San Joaquin Valley back to ranching.

Originally Posted by Richard

Give the San Joaquin Valley back to ranching.

Let me tell you how crazy our government is. Down the middle of the San Joaquin Valley in the middle of the farms is a string of prisons. Instead of renting the prisoners out in chain gangs to harvest the crops which would help reduce the State budget deficit, the government instead allows farmers to hire illegal aliens and forces us to support their families. We lose twice.

Originally Posted by Bowman

Let me tell you how crazy our government is. Down the middle of the San Joaquin Valley in the middle of the farms is a string of prisons. Instead of renting the prisoners out in chain gangs to harvest the crops which would help reduce the State budget deficit, the government instead allows farmers to hire illegal aliens and forces us to support their families. We lose twice.

Great idea. It's time we start weening our agricultural businesses off this cheap illegal labor.

Your idea is far too sensible and will benefit America and the prisoners. What kind of dangerous person are you?? Gee, we have a whole congress and all the farmers that disagree with you. I wonder why, Is it because they would muse their own, legal SSNs and pay SS taxes?? Is it because it could be used to defray the cost of imprisonment?/ Is it because they are afraid that if the prisoners have some green in their jeans, they become more deadly??

They could have bben doing the same in Iowa and Georgia among other states and to great benefit.

Ah well --your idea is too American for our congress so let's just stop trying to control illegal immigration. NOT!!!!!

Oh this AgJobs propaganda is the same old rubbish arguments the Pro-Slavery Movement used to sustain and perpetuate Slavery. We need the slaves, they said, to do the hard work of farming, otherwise everyone would starve and be naked. Well, guess what? It was all a big bunch of atrocious lies, same as this AgJob whining propaganda, because people ate and clothed themselves after we ended slavery.