Posted on 12/24/2006 5:21:38 AM PST by DeaconBenjamin2
ELBA, N.Y. — A cold December rain gusted across fields of cabbage destined for New York City egg rolls, cole slaw and Christmas goose. Ankle-deep in mud, six immigrant farmworkers raced to harvest 120,000 pounds before nightfall, knowing that at dawn they could find immigration agents at their door.
The farmer who stopped to check their progress had lost 28 other workers in a raid in October, all illegal Mexican immigrants with false work permits at another farm here in western New York. Throughout the region, farm hands have simply disappeared by twos and threes, picked up on a Sunday as they went to church or to the laundry. Whole families have gone into hiding, like the couple who spent the night with their child in a plastic calf hutch.
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For Rodney and Debbie Brown, the dairy farmers in Clifton Springs who lost 6 of their 10 employees to immigration arrests, the experience began like an episode of “The Twilight Zone.”
When no workers showed up at 6:30 a.m. on Aug. 28 to help milk 580 waiting cows, Mr. Brown went to the farmhouse where most of their Hispanic employees lived, only to find it eerily empty. Some of the workers had been with the Browns for more than seven years.
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Later, the Browns learned that agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement had been waiting for the workers in their driveway at dawn with state troopers, and had whisked them to the 450-bed detention center in Batavia, where there were 3,094 admissions this year. Like an estimated 650,000 immigrants in New York State and some 11 million nationally, the employees were in the United States illegally....
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The headline conveniently leaves out the word "Illegal".
In other news - Jailed bank robbers question "Why? Why us?"
All the news that's fit to print.
I'm sitting here with a tear rolling down my cheek.
NOT!
Lock 'em all up, process 'em, then send 'em back to their turd world sewer.
I could care less.
Or I could not care less.
Whichever one it is.
I can never remember.
To the employers of illegals I say,tough break for the holidays.Milk your own cows or find some Americans to do the job.
I don't know much about the employment of illegal aliens but could these owners have not known they were illegals after seven years of employment? If they did know they were illegals, how do the owners escape prosecution?
Boo-Friggin-Hoo
Isn't this the same area of New York where nearby cities such as Jamestown and Rochester have double digit unemployment and entire neighborhoods who sit around waiting for their next government check?
Oh they knew all right.Too bad the story didn't reveal how much the farmers were paying these Mexicans.Probably less than half of the prevailing wage.
Rochester....Rochester.
Isn't that where they used to make rolls of stuff that went into ancient cameras?
Yeah, I noticed that too. In the second paragraph it does mention "illegal".
another sob story from the lib/dem msm.....
the big thing about these people is they are all ILLEGALS!!!!
something not mentioned!!!
NYT motto:
All the news that fits (our agenda), we print. The rest we either spin into the ground or ignore.
Is this how Shillary was going to create 200,000 jobs for upstate NY?
And if it costs us consumers a bit more, it is still a hell of a lot less than the indirect cost of the welfare and ER medical care we're all paying for.
Send 'em home -- with weapons and a few bandoleers of ammo so they can clean up their own nation.
Just like we did over 240 years ago.
The article indicates that the federal prosecutors tried to get the illegals to testify against their employers, but that the illegals chose deportation rather than a plea bargain with testimony.
Good.
I hope they keep it up.
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