“I don’t know what we’re going to do if they run every illegal out of here. It’s going to be hard to stay in business.”
I’m sorry, but that’s NOT a reason to flout the law.
“Now, Alabama is finding out whether it can live without undocumented immigrants.”
Don’t worry about us Rooters. Somehow we’ll make it. /sarc
Advocacy journalism is the single greatest threat to this country's continued existance.
Mr. Copeland, put an ad on Craiglist and you will probably get enough pickers.
If not, raise the pay until you do.
That is how capitalism works.
I bet he could find some unemployed people somewhere to help out. Of course he might have to pay at least minimum wage.
Gee, maybe he will have to pay a wage that the market decides is right, whatever is required to attract legitimate workers. NAW, no way that would work.
Could not agree more, frig’em and feed’em fish heads. The building contractors have for too long gotten away with this bullchit. They now think they are the new farmers, ie: lowered wages so low that illegals are the only ones who will work for them.
Where in the hell is the unions on this subject?
What a winning business model!
It’s pretty obvious why Americans are not doing the work illegals do when you think about it. They only hire their foreign pals and they have locked out Americans from the skills development and work.
Construction jobs used to keep the working class in America rising. If you weren’t great at school, but could work with your hands, you learned a trade and then were trained on the job. No speaka spanish, no job in most construction operations in the US. It’s time for them to go.
That farmer who built his livlihood on illegal labor should be making other plans for hiring Americans rather than whining. He first has to get rid of his foreign farm manager who hires only illegal, foreign crews.
At least one true statement in the article, but they fail to point out that all these jobs that Americans won't do were overwhelmingly being done in Alabama by white and black US citizens until about twenty years ago. It wasn't until the early 1990s that you could even find an illegal alien working in Alabama without going to great effort.
These illegals gradually began arriving and would work cheaper, so more employers began to hire them. If some employers who did the hiring are now having to hustle more to find workers, I have no sympathy for them. And if they can't arrange labor to work 40 acres of tomatoes, they shouldn't plant forty acres of tomatoes.
Farmers who want large scale operations, especially in labor intensive crops like vegetables and fruit, should work out their labor needs without including illegal workers, or they should not plant such crops on a large scale.
The problem is that he expects US to pick up the tab for all the bennies the illegals and their families claim. He gets the benefit of cheap labor. We get the shaft in the form of huge benefits costs, higher crime rates, increased infectious disease, ad nauseum.
Screw that.
” Building contractors,pay in cash , if one of their illegals gets hurt on the job, Building contractors,will take illegals to er drop off them and leave it to the taxpayers to provide healthcare coverage “
YEP
The guy has $170,000 invested in 12 acres of tomatoes? That’s $14,000 per acre. He’s got other problems other than labor.
Now, Alabama is finding out whether it can live without undocumented immigrants,
Think about it! What does that say about America? This is not the country it once was. "A nation of immigrants" my ass! We've got too many foreigners living here. They are not Americans. They don't want to be Americans. They just want to live where you can get lots of "free stuff" and whine about "discrimination" and "racism" if you don't get it.
What can he do? How about turning himself in for knowingly breaking the law? He is also pretty stupid to be blabbing about in public.
“I don’t know what we’re going to do if they run every illegal out of here. It’s going to be hard to stay in business.”
Well there are tens of thousands of legal citizens getting welfare checks for YEARS. I think we could find people that need to work if we really tried!
My brother runs a landscape business.
People who hire illegals undercut him because they have lower overhead.
I am sure they too would whine and cry if enforcement of the law deprived them of their illegal labor.
F*ck them.
I not only don’t want them to have access to illegal labor - I want them driven out of business with huge fines if they are caught hiring illegals.
When there is no longer a market for illegal labor they will go home and stay home.