Posted on 01/05/2018 1:43:51 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
An escalation in immigration enforcement over the past year has brought a new level of anxiety for the several thousand migrant farm workers living in Vermont.
For the first time since 2010, arrests and detentions by the U.S. Border Patrol increased in Vermont, New Hampshire and northeastern New York last year.
The workers – many of them undocumented – are critically important to the state’s farm economy. To give you a sense of how important, consider that twice a year the Mexican government comes to a Vermont farm community to help hundreds of its citizens with financial and legal advice, and to issue passports and other government documents.
About 140 mostly undocumented workers turned out at a church meeting hall in Middlebury on a recent Saturday to share a warm meal with friends and to meet with their government officials.
Jose Aguilar had come over from New Hampshire to renew his passport. Our interpreter, Chris Urban, asked him when he wants to head home to Mexico. Aguilar laughs. “Tomorrow morning,” he said, “because it will be late today.”
Aguilar – who likes to practice his English – joked that he can’t leave for his home in Mexico right away because there’s a long line to get his passport renewed. But he’s not going home. And when asked why he’s in New England, and he gave the same answer as the other workers here.
“I work on the farm with the cows,” he said. “Just working, and working hard!”
Aguilar slipped back to Spanish as he talks about how living conditions for his family in Mexico, their housing – even their basic nutrition — has improved with the remittances he sends home.
“Yes," he said.
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That’s exactly what needs to be done!! I wish we could sit down with Trump and tell him just that.
It’s no fun paying for free shit for criminal invading hoards.
It’s also no fun burying Family that were victims of repeatedly deported Criminal Aliens.
A FReeper from a few years back used to regularly post somethig to the effect that “If your business model depends on illegals, I don’t give a d@mn if you go out of business. I have no sympathy.”
No...sorry. It was my tablet and a bad connecting. However, that comment bears repeating. Do I get an award for most-repetitive post?
Whatever happened to the “Guest Worker” program? Bring them in, pick, sent ‘em back.
Or just change the tax code so that employees without US citizenship, residency, or a work permit have to pay much higher taxes, along with their employers. So, for example, why not have them pay FICA rates of 50% with the employer share equal to 45%. Then all the farms and other employers of illegal workers can just send the extra money to the IRS every month. And if they don’t, then they can deal with the IRS, who will surely figure out a way to collect the money.
And no need for a court action either, just pay or lose your farm or business to the IRS.
He has to renew his passport to get back INTO mexico? BS. Just plain BS. Throw their asses out. We can milk our own cows. The more we will pay for hiring US workers or strictly controlling labor visas will easily be made up in savings for welfare programs.
Vermont sucks
still “hiding in the shadows”? /s
We are not deporting undocumented workers just illegal aliens. People with documentation problems can stay, they just need to work that out with their employee. People breaking the law have to leave.
Let them fight out whether or not we are lying and expose the dishonesty of their own PC definition of illegal alien.
You can hire undocumented immigrants they just have to be legally in the country and entitled to work.
If INS or the state lost your green card or birth certificate documentation that is on them. Just produce your copy, or a parents.
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