Posted on 06/21/2006 4:07:04 AM PDT by Dane
Just days before his Republican primary election, U.S. Rep. Chris Cannon is seeing more than $134,000 flowing into his war chest, much of it from organizations known to favor cheap immigrant labor. The pro-immigration groups have given Cannon, R-Utah, at least $58,200 in the past 12 days alone, a review of federal campaign reports shows. That includes at least $30,000 from agricultural interests — such as the California Farm Bureau and the Dairy Farmers of America. Additional money is coming from businesses known for hiring inexpensive labor —including Wal-Mart and the National Roofing Contractors Association.
(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...
U-Pick Your Own Fresh Fruit
"Lookout Farm invites you to take part in the New England apple picking tradition! Each harvest season at Lookout Farm offers a unique opportunity to enjoy a spectacular autumn day while you pick your own apples, Asian pears, peaches, berries and more. It's a fun and relaxing day away from the city with family and friends.
Strawberry U-Pick
Strawberry picking is a spectacular way to welcome summer into your life!
Come ride the trains and pick our incredibly delicious farm-grown strawberries. The hours are 10-5:00 throughout the season and the cost is $5.00 for adults and $4.00 for children. Strawberries are $4.99 a quart.
Come enjoy life on the farm and see the animals, pick your own fruit and ride the trains through the beautiful arbors".
Is this Americana or what?
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"Of course you as a good patriotic American could go to your local apple farm and apply for a job as a picker there."
Funny you mention that. Nearly every Sunday morning (in season) at the crack of dawn...my girl and I wake up, fix a steaming pot of coffee and make our rounds to 2 or 3 local farm markets. Sometimes we pick our own...sometimes not...depending on our plans for the rest of the day.
I have yet to see a Jose' there....LOL
Have you ever been in a grocery store on the Outer Banks of North Carolina during the summer? All the checkers, baggers and stockers are young adults from Eastern Europe on temporary work visas. The grocery stores have figured out a legal way to get the low-skilled, low-wage workers they need, and the young people from Eastern Europe get to come here and have the time of their lives. A win-win. If the grocers can do it, so can the farmers, roofers, landscapers, etc. Such legal programs exist, and can be expanded if needed.
Amnesty for illegals only promotes and encourages more illegality, undermining the rule of law which is the basis of the American social compact. Leaving the southern border wide open, hoping the right people sneak across and the wrong people don't, is absurd and dangerous in a post-911 world. The American people deserve better from their government.
I'l give you a hint it was a lot more expensive
Maybe I should have directed my comment to the price of things directly attibuted to the work which illegals perform. Produce, roadwork, other construction projects cost are all higher than would be expected. Look at the cost of building homes. Cheap labor and the prices continue to rise?
I noticed you didn't respond to the higher taxes We pay to support the illegals in this country???? We're all getting milked from both ends and We can only expect this to continue after We become citizens in the 'share your wealth' NAU.
Well duh. It's going to be easy to get affluent European college kids to work at beach resorts, where the social life will be hopping.
Getting them to pick apples or tomatoes in the country miles away from any nightlife is a whole other matter.
There you go again just like clockwork LOL
You are so predictable
Also I'm all for lower taxes for all and less regulation on business.
Getting people to come here and work is the least of our problems. There are plenty of poor people in Africa, for instance, who would jump at the chance to come here and pick apples and tomatoes, nightlife or no nightlife. There are legal means to get the workers farmers need. We do not need to resort to leaving our southern border open and hoping for the best.
You do know the 9/11 hijackers didn't come over the southern border, but through the airports.
And also you do know about a terrorist cell that was broken up north of the border in a well establsihed islamofascist enclave in Toronto.
"Immigrant funds flow to Cannon campaign"
Just because it didn't happen that way on 9-11 doesn't mean it can't. For all the billions we've spent on homeland security in the past few years, we've left a gaping hole in our defenses because powerful business lobbies care more about their bottom lines than they do the security of their fellow Americans. And fedgov is complicit in it. The American people deserve better.
Neither Dane, nor any other of the FROBL can explain why it is okay for Farmer John to stick the taxpayer with the bill for Pedro's social services.
So, Dane, do you want to pay some of our taxes for your precious illegals?
Yep that is the misleading headline from the Deseret News.
I didn't change their headline, but did prove it wrong.
LOL.........still getting your political news from "E"s Talk Soup, I see.
That's like defending a pro-slavery southern Democrat for getting donations from such people as plantation owners, cotton farmers, and tobacco stores.
I'm sure that, in the mid-1800s, you would have been the loudest voice saying that Abraham Lincon and the abolitionist Republicans (you know, the conservatives) just hated people who sell our cotton, own our plantations, and provide African worker transport and trading services.
Whew spiff, you toked early on your liberal bong today, IMO.
How you can compare Dairy Farmers, Roofing Contractors, and Wal-Mart, to plantation owners is something from a DUmmie dope bong haze.
The price of homes would be exactly what they are now. But the lawbreaking, unethical builders would not have been able to exploit the cheap, minority labor to pad their profits.
Also I'm all for lower taxes for all and less regulation on business.
Yes, all regulation of business is evil. I'll bet you're for returning to the days of child sweatshop labor, etc. You seem to enjoy and celebrate the exploited, sweatshop labor in the lettuce fields and such.
You know, the Whigs were uncomfortable with the fringer, unappeasable "conservatives" of their party who fought against the slave labor special interests and upholding our Constitution and its protections. Hmmm... I wonder what happened to the Whigs...
You forgot to say LAWBREAKING dairy farmers, roofing contractors Dane.
Let's just clear that up.
These people are breaking the law by hiring illegals.
I'm not. I'm comparing your defense of modern slavery to the defense of slavery in the mid-1800's.
Whatever you say hillary.
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