Thread: Ohio farmers fear illegal immigrant crackdown

Ohio farmers fear illegal immigrant crackdown

bizjournals.com
Dayton Business Journal
Date: Friday, October 21, 2011, 6:52am EDT

Ohio farmers say they are concerned about a plan for using a system called "E-Verify" to check for illegal immigrants. The system is digital and cross-references the employee's name and social security number with other federal information to verify they are a U.S. citizen.

But farmers say that could scare off legitimate workers who most of the farmers rely on for their business during the heavy crop seasons.

The proposed system has been called "an important safeguard for American workers who continue to lose jobs and wages to illegal aliens," by Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a nonprofit group that opposes illegal immigration, according to the Columbus Disptach.

And President Barack Obama has said he supports the E-verify system in conjunction with other measures.

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Farmers fear crackdown on illegal immigrants
Federal plan to make E-Verify mandatory could cut their work force

dispatch.com
By Michael Matza
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Thursday October 20, 2011 9:27 AM

BIGLERVILLE, Pa. — Toiling methodically in a vast green orchard, Saintasia Elysee reached into the branches of dwarf apple trees and pulled out rosy Winesaps. Her husband, Kenol Laurent, drove a tractor that lifted the heavy bins of harvested fruit.

The next day at Hollabaugh Bros. Farm, they were picking pears.

Haitian immigrants, Elysee and Laurent keep a home in the Caribbean nation and return annually to rural Adams County, Pa., for the summer and fall harvests. About 25 other immigrant workers, mostly from Haiti and Mexico, also come back year after year, laboring about five months for $15 to $20 an hour.

Kay Hollabaugh, who keeps the books for the 500-acre farm, said she complies with the federal law on immigrant employment. She fills out the required paperwork. She inspects their identity documentation. And unless a visa, driver’s license, Social Security card, birth certificate or other acceptable ID is obviously bogus, she accepts it.

“But we are not police. We are not psychics,â€

SEIZE THAT LAND and auction it off to Americans that will employ AMERICAN WORKERS

If they absolutely, positively cannot find citizen labor, there are numerous program for hiring foreign farm help. These farmers are just too lazy to fill out the paperwork. The claim that legal workers are afraid of E-Verify is totally bogus. There is a greater chance of an illegal slipping through than there is of a legal worker being denied a job.

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

SEIZE THAT LAND and auction it off to Americans that will employ AMERICAN WORKERS

Yes, impound their land!!!!

what part don't you Inderstand ?
the Americans are not racists, we want jobs & who has the jobs
the illegal immigrants has them. we will pick but for the right pay
would the gov pick for 5.hr ?
I don't think so would obama pick for 5.hr I don't think so
so don't come & hand us this
we will work our ass off for our family also .we are not cheap
but the illegal immigrants are . well they are the jack ass
the farmer are to lazy to fill out the paper work . well they get pay very well . the illegal immigrants may get 5.hr & the farmer get the
& buck
the illegal immigrants work for may 5.hr & get welfare yes they have 4 or 5 family in one apartment they have a good life
free med . you Name they have it
who pay for this the USA that who
& we are sick of this BS
so don't come & say we are Racists . u are the one
That are racists & Obama is also
he don't like the American at all & He know this
we want jobs & Our country back
By the way if you don't like our flag & the way we say the
Prayer in church or In our school
get the hell Out this is our way
& I thank god the American we can do this
NO amnesty

We used to have a great program to get mexican laborers for Farms. It was called the Bracero program but of course Ted Kennedy killed it. Ted Kennedy was one of the biggest destroyers for American that ever lived.