https://www.c-span.org/video/?444641-1/president-trump-remarks-michigan-rally&start=2016
Trump gave this speech a month ago, but I completely missed it.
I searched Free Republic before posting this, but I could not find any relevant hits.
I’m sure not rushing anywhere to pick lettuce, oranges, grapes or strawberries.
Don needs to lose this idea.
The cheap labor gang is obviously telling him the agribiz people need slaves.
But that’s the start of the bad stuff.
Tell the welfare cases, the “inner city yutes” they have a job to do in the fields. They don’t like it, no government freebies.
And the farmers? If they can’t manage those people, or work the land with their own families, they can sell the dirt and leave.
My family worked the mid-western plains as original settlers, didn’t need any slave help. We left the South because of that, and we don’t need the soft version now.
The current quota for H-2B (unskilled non-agriculture) workers is 66,000. However, that 66,000 does not include previously approved H-2Bs who return to work in the USA within a certain time period.
Link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3658671/posts
give the jobs to those on welfare now who are able-bodied
THEN AND ONLY THEN if more workers are needed then let more foreigners in.
a third of this country is on welfare ... some are kids, some are persons with genuine disabilities.... i get all that.....
but SOME (a pretty good number) are able to work. let’s take care of that problem FIRST before importing more foreigners, please Pres. Trump!
WE DO NOT NEED GUEST WORKERS!!!
I hope our President learned a lesson here:
‘Trump’s praise of the program during his Michigan speech drew no enthusiasm from the crowd.
‘Trump was only met with applause after he clarified that “we need people to be able to come into our country, do your jobs, help you on the farms, and then they go out, they’re going to leave.”’
No, Mister President, we do not agree. What we have to have is American jobs for American citizens ... like the ones who put you in office.
Good bye midterms if Trump okays that treason .
See tagline.
If they are actually needed here is the program that was in place until 1964:
“The Bracero Program (from the Spanish term bracero, meaning “manual laborer” or “one who works using his arms”) was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated on August 4, 1942, when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico. The agreement guaranteed decent living conditions (sanitation, adequate shelter and food) and a minimum wage of 30 cents an hour; it also allowed the importation of contract laborers from Guam as a temporary measure during the early phases of World War II.[1] The agreement was extended with the Migrant Labor Agreement of 1951, enacted as an amendment to the Agricultural Act of 1949 (Public Law 78) by Congress,[2] which set the official parameters for the bracero program until its termination in 1964.[3]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracero_program
I smell all the concern trolls coming out of the muck......
According to a Washington State University study, the cost of labor coould DOUBLE (due to using US labor for instance)and the cost per head to pick lettuce would go up from 19 cents to 28 cents per head. So at the market, when you buy the $1.50 head of lettuce retail, it would now cost $1.69. Not earth shattering and we’d have US labor picking it!