Thread: Farmers Having Hard Time Replacing Migrants?

Farmers Having Hard Time Replacing Migrants?
Jan 5, 2012 Does this have national implications?

http://video.foxnews.com/v/136768709...ylist_id=86858

To all you Farmer's
you say you are Having hard time's well what about hire the American. like college kids . I know for a fact we all want to work
& don't say. the american will not work . That all BS & you know this you pay the right pay & you will get help no two way
about it .you are doing very well you want the illegal immigrants why they work cheap . I did work on a farm & I see what going on
all you farmer's do very well . you want help Post you paper on the car's or store window . or put a ad In your town paper ?
but hire the American kids also .
No amnesty or Dream act
you want help well you help our Country buy hire our american

With over half a million illegals in Georgia the pattern should be obvious to even the most ardent illegal immigration supporter. The farmer hires the illegal--why? Because they can bypass the H2A requirements for wages and facilities to support the workers. The old--lower costs, greater profits routine that has existed since man first applied a money system. Since picking the crops is not a year round job, the farmer pays the illegal migrant his wages and releases him/her upon Georgia and America.

The worker, through our newspapers and the chain of relatives that preceded them in entering America legally and illegally, is aware of employers in the trades who are more than willing to hire them at a better than farming wage to work on, among other jobs in the construction industry, our roads, (see Baldwin Paving in Georgia), where the working season is much longer and the wages, much better. Thus creating a whole new level of workers who will not do the work that Americans won't do!!!! Meantime eliminating the thousands of summer, (and other) jobs that once were filled by college students under the old , work and pay your way though school system, that once existed in America. We still have many young folks who would gladly fill these jobs to earn badly needed income as they get their education.


Ironic, non Americans who, because of wages and a desire for a better, more stable working life, will not go back to the fields. How many hundreds of thousand more immigrants are we going to let the agribusiness rotate into America's fields an out to trades jobs, before we put a stop to it.

BTW--as Daniel in the video states--the data is anecdotal. Georgia farmers encountered some weather problems this season and therefore did encounter some financial loss, but not due to the new immigration law.

Later in 2012 , the University of Georgia will release the agribusiness economic/financial numbers. I do no think that the farmers can dodge that collection of data and the truth will be known.

An advance peek of crop problems can be seen at:


http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news...10601-ss-am-ap

We must stop the cycle. The farmers must be made aware of the harm they inflict on Georgia and America. The law needs to be enforced to the point of removal of business licenses and jail time with fines. If you earn money illegally, it should be taken by the sate to try to rectify the harm caused by the efforts to increase profits illegally.

I, personally, while understanding the problem that any employer has with finding people to work very hard jobs, believe that the farmers have had it all their way for too many years and have become inured to the fact that they are behaving in a treasonous fashion. Add the subsidies to it and the rest of us are really getting betrayed.


PS There was a comment some time back on an internet site that a couple of farmers interviewed professed to not having heard of the H2A program where they could, legally, get the workers they need. I do not believe them. I think they do not want to have the expense of living up to the terms of the H2A program.

If farmers pay American citizens a fair wage for doing farm labor, they will find an abundance of American workers very willing to do the work.

This old lie that illegal aliens are simply doing the work Americans won't has been fostered and promoted by farmers and labor-intensive industries for years. It was a lie then, and it is still a lie.