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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. …

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TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food; Society
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegals; interiorsecretary; obama; sallyjewell
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To: Olog-hai
Interior Secretary: ‘If We Did Not Have Immigration to This Country We Would Not Eat’

Is Interior Secretary Sally Jewell implying that we practice cannibalism?

81 posted on 06/29/2016 4:27:22 AM PDT by varon (There's always room for one more on the hanging tree.....)
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To: Olog-hai

‘If We Did Not Have Immigration to This Country We Would Not Eat

If we did not have idiots in this Country we would not have a Government!


82 posted on 06/29/2016 4:36:05 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: cpdiii
You left out the most important part about Cesar Chavez.

He was an advocate for a farm worker's union and is the main reason why we have the United Farm Worker's union.

Two of the main parts of immigration reform is reforming the guest worker visas, H2A ag worker visa and H2B non-ag worker visa.

You need to understand the role of the United Farm workers union in reforming the H2A

Unions don't like guest workers and they don't like illegals because both are hard to organize. So the unions want lower quotas on guest workers visas and want higher quotas on legal permanent resident alien visas(green cards) and they want illegals to be amnestied onto the path to citizenship.

The GOP wants higher quotas on guest workers and lower quotas on legal permanent resident aliens(green cards) and they want amnesty to guest worker.

The GOP is in a weak negotiating position with the unions/dems because many republican voters are immigration hawks opposed to higher quotas on both temporary guest worker visas and permanent visas, plus, they are opposed to both amnesty onto the path and amnesty to guest workers.

83 posted on 06/29/2016 5:09:01 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: wbarmy
She is not a lesbian, she has a husband and two children. Let us stick to the facts.

Actually, you're correct. Her husbands name is Warren. She does however- - have the lesbian look.

84 posted on 06/29/2016 6:14:19 AM PDT by Mr Apple ( Hillary & Eliz. >> Cookies, Cake, Ice Cream, Desserts & Jars & Jars of Cashews! the Walrus look!)
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To: Olog-hai

Looks like she know a lot about trans...


85 posted on 06/29/2016 6:18:00 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Olog-hai

Because for two hundred years we could not feed ourselves and Mexico is doing so well??


86 posted on 06/29/2016 6:18:45 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Olog-hai

Yes, because we are totally helpless!

GFY Jewell


87 posted on 06/29/2016 6:19:31 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: anton
We used to work the fields during the summers in the SF Bay Area and the migrant laborers worked very long hours, and outworked all of the locals.

The whole family would work piecemeal. The little kids would work full shifts with no breaks and were very disciplined.

That was before Cesar Chavez, who the farmers absolutely detested.

88 posted on 06/29/2016 6:38:57 AM PDT by caltaxed
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To: dp0622

Many times over the years local orchardists have tried to get non migrant farmworkers to harvest. Never works and has resulted in lawsuits when injuries ensued.


89 posted on 06/29/2016 9:02:43 AM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Why, because the wait staff, cooks, and busboys are all Latino? You RACIST P.O.S!

I think the aging n.European ethnic origin farmers around here would take issue with it, either way.

90 posted on 07/01/2016 8:38:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: Olog-hai
Another idiot who doesn't know how capitalism works... Yes, even without illegals we would eat... She has all the wisdom of a typical communist... the kind that watched as millions of people starved to death under Stalin.

The country will be blessed when Obama's commie-lites are washed out of the system.

91 posted on 07/01/2016 8:53:41 AM PDT by GOPJ (Bill Clinton's white trash. Loretta Lynch is black trash... Comey has NO backbone. Welcome to AMeriK)
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To: Olog-hai

Immigrants are very tasty with a little salt.

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92 posted on 07/01/2016 8:55:04 AM PDT by Mears (Afrocentrism is "the invention of tradition"-----Hobsbawm)
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