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Not sure how attacking everyone who disagrees with you wins your arguments. Where you going to find these law abiding people to pick the crops??

This issue is toast so it doesn’t matter. Now supply and demand will determine how many Mexicans cross the border.

Pray for W and Our Troops

‘Where are you going to find law abiding people to pick crops?’

I think Colorado has a great solution! Put the prisoners to work to pay for their room and board.

“Farms get help from inmates”
Denver Post 7/11/07

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_6344387

Another article to answer your question, “Where are we going to find law abiding people to pick the crops?”

Fox News
July 13,2007
Colo. Farmers Turn to Prisoners to Do Work of Illegal Immigrants

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289270,00.html

(Of course they will have to be ‘law abiding’ while under the watch of an armed guard, won’t they?)

“Where you going to find these law abiding people to pick the crops??”

I believe that you could get enough laborers if you were to pay them say, $30/hr. The problem is that farmers want help but are unwilling to pay them.

Where you going to find these law abiding people to pick the crops??

I think you are looking at the problem all wrong.

Suppose that all illegal aliens were rounded up and exported, what would happen to all those tomato's in the field? They would rot and the price of tomato's would skyrocket. No one is going to buy overpriced tomato's, so the tomato farmer goes out of business or plants something profitable. This time the farmer studies the market and figures the cost of LEGAL workers into the cost of his produce. That is how the free enterprise system regulates itself.

The other thing that is overlooked is that individuals or small neighborhood can raise their own fruits and vegetables. It really isn't that hard. Ever hear of 'Victory Gardens?' That's how America got most of it's vegetables during WWII.

Personally, I love tomato's. I grow one cherry tomato plant on my deck that keeps my salads filled with tomato's all during the summer. If the price of lettuce skyrockets, I'll grow my own lettuce. America doesn't NEED mass produced produced harvested by ILLEGAL aliens.

Your desire to protect law breakers to protect the low cost of mass produced vegetables doesn't really seem in line with your other Christian views. IMO. Doing the right and legal thing is sometimes more costly, but it is always better then doing the wrong thing.

Sincerely