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To: dawn53
Migrant agriculture workers seem to me the perfect example of jobs that most Americans would have a hard time adapting to.

Guess you didn't grow up in farm country?

....its not just on the farms doing stoop labor or in the milking barns on corporate farms...they are also taking jobs in the big processing plants..meat packing and vegetable canning..it's here that many Americans have been replaced...and now wont be hired...It isn't because Americans don't want these jobs..College students, high school students and house wives who worked during the seasons for extra money..and tuition. I earned college money this way my self...and so did many of the kids I went to school with..

Of course big outfits like the Clinton's best buddies Tyson Chicken...use a lot of Mexican labor and have been busted using illegals and underage illegal's children....

The Mexicans don't go back to Mexico anymore...they stay through the winter...and take advantage of state programs..education, health care and other state programs..to save money they live communally....in some small towns they are also a violent crime and property crime problem..

According to crime stats the illegals are also a source of drug trafficking...Mexican "red" methamphetamine making inroads among our local teens...

Once they are registered...the 'owners of the means of production' will have to carry them on insurance..pay them workman's comp...unemployment...social security disability...their cheap labor advantage is about to disappear I think...they are about to get very expensive...

One of the new 'migrants' around here wears a neat Teeshirt with a pic of Che Gueverra on it... makes one wonder what other business he has in America besides pickin apples or working in the food processing plant.. Wait till they get organized...

Naturally for all the problems we are about to incur because of them... tax payers will have to shell out even more...for our new Mexican outreach social program...

IMO

70 posted on 01/07/2004 4:36:47 PM PST by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: joesnuffy
Once they are registered...the 'owners of the means of production' will have to carry them on insurance..pay them workman's comp...unemployment...social security disability...their cheap labor advantage is about to disappear I think...they are about to get very expensive

Exactly!

This is a very good point.

So once they are forced to register and the economic value of these workers disappears, won't supply follows demand apply to the amount of "registered aliens" needed.

P.S. I grew up around the migrant farms of central and south Florida. I don't know one American that would live under the deplorable conditions that the migrants find themselves in (but that's another issue).

88 posted on 01/07/2004 4:43:19 PM PST by dawn53
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To: joesnuffy
Just a reality check -

Offer $15/hour in San Francisco for roofers, no experience necessary. You will get Salvadorans, Mexicans, etc. Thats all.
89 posted on 01/07/2004 4:43:39 PM PST by buwaya
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