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Interior Secretary: ‘If We Did Not Have Immigration to This Country We Would Not Eat’
Cybercast News Service ^ | June 28, 2016 | 2:32 PM EDT | Penny Starr

Posted on 06/28/2016 9:14:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told attendees at an event on Hispanic-American entrepreneurship on Tuesday that if it were not for legal and illegal immigration into the United States “we would not eat.”

Jewell said that the country is still trying to address the rights of farm workers, including the role immigration plays.

“I’d say the challenges of immigration reform are a good example,” she said. “If we did not have immigration to this country we would not eat. Whether it’s documented or undocumented, we would not eat,” Jewell said at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food; Society
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegals; interiorsecretary; obama; sallyjewell
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To: WKUHilltopper

… and we sit back and let them …
Did you ever read Isaiah 3:4?
21 posted on 06/28/2016 9:33:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

All “able-bodied” Americans on “welfare” should be put to work...Either cleaning road ways or working on farms or just doing anything except sitting on their butts doing drugs and watching TV all day...


22 posted on 06/28/2016 9:37:22 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: WKUHilltopper; Jim Robinson
These people are sucking the life out of the country...and we sit back and let them...especially the GOPe controlled Congress.

Are we allowed to despise the Republican Party apparatchiks yet?

23 posted on 06/28/2016 9:39:21 PM PDT by papertyger
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To: Olog-hai

24 posted on 06/28/2016 9:39:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Olog-hai
My local grocery stores have produce from many countries:

Roma tomatoes - Mexico
Avocados - Mexico, Dominican Republic
Pears - Chile, Argentina
Cantaloupes - Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala

It does not all come from western and southern state harvests done by [illegal] immigrant labor.


25 posted on 06/28/2016 9:40:46 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Olog-hai

Here’s how to disprove this liberal brain fart:

Canada only has 544,000 Latin American Canadians and only 96,000 Mexican Canadians

Source: National Household Survey


26 posted on 06/28/2016 9:41:21 PM PDT by CreviceTool (A Good Samaritan with a handgun saved my life...)
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To: Olog-hai
Why do these Obama appointees look like they might know a black magic spell or two . . . ?

I still say that Obama, Reid, and Pelosi remind me of the devil cult in Rosemary's Baby:



27 posted on 06/28/2016 9:41:35 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: Olog-hai

Why do all these people have that 4rd grade teacher look? It’s like when they speak, they sound like they’re addressing a class of 9 year olds.


28 posted on 06/28/2016 9:43:20 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deciet)
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To: Olog-hai

Is she stupid? Our history has had controlled immigration. Out of control immigration will over crowd our cities and over whelm the availability of jobs. By the way, we already have a wall on our border. It is the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Instead of dying from falling off the top, you die from drowning in the ocean.


29 posted on 06/28/2016 9:43:42 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: alexander_busek

AND those wages would remain in America pumping up the US economy instead of being wired back home to Mexico to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars wired out of the country.


30 posted on 06/28/2016 9:43:53 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: BenLurkin
Who is that guy?

David Tennant's dad, maybe.

31 posted on 06/28/2016 9:44:25 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: Olog-hai

what an incredibly ridiculous, stupid statement

when under the obama anti=jobs regime
we have 100 million adult working age Americans who can’t get jobs


32 posted on 06/28/2016 9:44:28 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: Olog-hai

Or maybe the girls physical ed teacher look.


33 posted on 06/28/2016 9:46:50 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deciet)
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To: cpdiii

Actually, at 120 heads per hour it is about $08 for lettuce.

I think it could be picked faster than that, but you know the yahoos that do this work. a lot of fat ladies and kids.


34 posted on 06/28/2016 9:47:35 PM PDT by anton
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To: Olog-hai

94 million people out of the labor force. Maybe 1 or 2 of them could pick some lettuce?


35 posted on 06/28/2016 9:51:26 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: Olog-hai

94 million people out of the labor force. Maybe 1 or 2 of them could pick some lettuce?


36 posted on 06/28/2016 9:51:26 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: Olog-hai

What an absolute frikkin’ fool!


37 posted on 06/28/2016 9:52:58 PM PDT by Bullish (Blame others for your failures? Take credits where none are do? Who made you Pharoh?)
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To: Olog-hai

That’s a dude, man.


38 posted on 06/28/2016 9:53:51 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Rise up America! This country can't take eight more years of Marxism and Socialism.)
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To: Rastus

lol


39 posted on 06/28/2016 9:54:45 PM PDT by Pelham (Obama, the most unAmerican President in history)
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To: The Continental Op
Your post would be like kryptonite to the asshats in the Obama admin. Simple facts that destroy all of their asinine claims.
40 posted on 06/28/2016 9:55:52 PM PDT by Bullish (Blame others for your failures? Take credits where none are do? Who made you Pharoh?)
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