Posted on 09/22/2010 12:28:20 PM PDT by La Lydia
Sheila Jackson Lee & Maxine Waters are on this subcommittee so why would any one be surprised.
It’s an in your face attempt to get AMNESTY passed!
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — The United Farm Workers union has launched a new campaign meant to change people’s minds about the role migrants play in our nation’s economy. This new effort is about to get national attention but that didn’t keep UFW’s President Arturo Rodriguez from speaking in Fresno County.
Summer school students at Ben Benavidez Elementary school enjoyed today’s visit from Rodriguez. He’ll have a bigger audience when he appears on the popular political comedy show the Colbert report later this week. He will be talking about the UFW’s “Take Our Jobs” campaign.
Arturo Rodriguez has a plan, “We’re offering to anybody in America to come and try to work as a farm worker.” Stephen Colbert is expected to take him up on the offer.
For Sanger farmer Manuel Cunha heads the Nisei Farmers’ League and says today’s debate over legal vs. illegal immigration is a repeat of California circa late 1990’s. At that time there was a shortage of farm workers for many of the same reasons, “What the UFW has done is saying U.S. workers or those of you that are citizens or resident aliens and eligible to work: we have jobs.”
Tough, back breaking jobs that this farm labor contractor is having trouble filling this season. Leopaldo Garcia a farm labor contractor told us, “This is hard work, to harvest peaches grapes or whatever’s in the farm, it’s hard.” He has had no luck going to state unemployment offices for people willing to take the jobs he has to offer, “I make an order last week and nobody called yet, to to whoever wants to work and they don’t call yet.”
Finding a permanent legal solution to a now largely illegal immigrant work force is a common goal for the UFW and farmers these days. And many Central Valley farmers like Chuna are hanging their hopes on the current farm bill before congress to insure a means to harvest their crops.
Take Our Jobs
http://www.ufw.org/toj_play/TOJNEW_12_JAL.html
http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/local&id=7540462
I hear that Lady Gaga is available for testimony on the defense authorization bill. I’m sure she’ll dress appropriately.
( The real answer is farm mechanization, not more illegals )
http://www.ufw.org/images/b01.jpg
As president of the United Farm Workers, Arturo S. Rodriguez is continuing to build the union Cesar E. Chavez founded into a powerful voice for immigrant workers by increasing its membership and pushing historic legislation on immigration reform and worker rights.
Rodriguez is leading the UFW in bringing about meaningful change for farm workers by making it easier for them to organize and negotiate union contracts. He seeks to fundamentally transform American agriculture by creating jobs offering workers decent pay, comprehensive health coverage, retirement security, protections against toxic poisons, job security and guarantees against discrimination and sexual harassment. Under Rodriguez, the UFW is working to offer innovative alternative representation through benefits and services, and to extend innovative representation to workers temporarily brought to work in U.S. agriculture. His goal is also preserving America’s food supply through a strong and viable agricultural industry.
The veteran farm labor organizer was first exposed to Cesar Chavez through his parish priest in his hometown of San Antonio in 1966. He became active with the UFW’s grape boycott as a student at St. Mary’s University 1969. At the University of Michigan in 1971, where he earned an M.A. degree in social work, Rodriguez organized support for farm worker boycotts. He began serving full time with the UFW in 1973, when he first met Chavez, who became his mentor for 20 years. Rodriguez has more than 35 years experience organizing farm workers, negotiating UFW contracts and leading numerous farm worker boycott and political drives across North America.
http://www.ufw.org/_page.php?menu=about&inc=about_exe.html
Of course it’s about amnesty, but what are we to take away from their website? That Mexicans make better field hands? Esp. at slave wages? That we need a permanent underclass of slave wage working Mexicans to feed ourselves?
And they call us racists?!
They seem to be doing pretty well for themselves while LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZENS are OUT OF WORK!!!
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Recent UFW Successes
U.S. Labor Dept. reinstates decades-old farm worker protections rules - UFW applauds return to bi-partisan farm worker regulations
On February 11, 2010, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis announced reinstatement of protections for imported farm workers that were slashed from the nation’s agricultural guest worker program during the last days of the Bush administration in early 2009.
The Bush administration’s changes to the H-2A agricultural guest worker program, which took effect on January 17, 2009, dramatically impacted wages and working conditions for foreign agricultural workers. Under the Bush rules, agricultural employers could more easily access cheap foreign labor with little government oversight. MORE
AgJobs included as part of immigration reform bill . (Legislation providing earned legislation for farm workers)
“This is a huge step forward for farm workers in this country,” said UFW President Arturo Rodriguez. “Once again, a bipartisan group has shown they believe farm workers deserve the right to apply for earned citizenship. AgJobs, negotiated between the UFW and the agricultural industry, promises to help America secure a safe food supply, strengthen the agricultural industry and safeguard the rights of workers and their families. “We realize there is still much work to be done on the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, but the UFW looks forward to working together to ensure that comprehensive reform is enacted this year.” Negotiated for five years between the UFW and the agricultural industry, AgJobs has been endorsed by more than 500 organizations, including business, labor, religious, Latino and immigrant rights groups. AgJOBS would allow the majority of farm workers to earn the right to apply for legal status in exchange for their commitment to work in agriculture for the next 3-5 years.
http://www.ufw.org/_board.php?mode=list&b_code=about_suc#5452
She can testify on Japanese airport and coastal security.
Well, I remember a couple years ago, Michael Douglas was being interviewed, and somebody asked him a serious question about the stock market. He was called “Mr. Gekko” by a reporter, as if the reporter didn’t know that Gordon Gekko was a character he played in a movie. He was a major Wall Street player in that movie.
And the line between fantasy and reality keeps blurring............
Both tools for the Democratic Party...
And AL Franken is an elected rep from Minn..
You can't make this stuff up.. as Bizarro as D.C. reality..
Oh! and Delaware might elect a virtual Marxist as Senator..
Progressive Screwls have finally driven America crazy...
From the release:
Rodriguez appeared on a segment of “The Colbert Report” and Colbert spent a day in August working at a corn and vegetable farm in New York state.
The UFW launched its national “Take Our Jobs” campaign on June 24, inviting U.S. citizens and legal residents to replace hundreds of thousands of immigrant field laborers, most of whom are undocumented. Since then, more than 3 million people have visited the campaign website, www.takeourjobs.org. Of those visitors, 8,600 have expressed an interest in seeking employment as farmworkers. Despite the numbers, only seven people have taken the UFW up on its offer to take a job in agriculture.
In other words, Colbert is there to show how weak & lazy Whites & Blacks are?
Nice...
Just got off the phone with Zoe Lofgren’s office in San Jose and in DC asking them if this report is true or not.
And they told me “We don’t know.”
I responded, “You don’t know? Supposedly Lofgren invited him. So is it true or not?”
The response once again was “We don’t know.”
Is she that desperate in this election year that she has to pull a stunt like this?
The host of Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report” plans to appear before a Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the subject of “Protecting America’s Harvest.”
There is no official word on why Colbert is testifying at the hearing or what he plans to address, though an unnamed Republican told the Daily Caller that he will be appearing “in character.”
He may be discussing a program called “Take Our Jobs” that reportedly “offers Americans the chance to try working in the fields if they really think good jobs are being lost to illegals.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20017315-503544.html
Of course, the illegal alien farm workers are making five to ten times what they could make in their home nation, and they don't mean one word of this. And farm workers should be in a temporary worker program to begin with. It's just more convenient and cheaper (and ignored by our government) when all concerned pretend there are no pertinent laws.
This is a stupid ruse because if citizens did start replacing them, we'd probably have riot on our hands.
Comedy Central Indecisions
Stephen Colbert to Testify Before House Immigration Subcommittee This Friday
You know how you’re always saying, “When the hell is the the congressional subcommittee on immigration gonna get its shit together and invite basic cable satirist Stephen Colbert to testify before it for some reason?” (Oh, come on, you’re always saying that.)
Well, the answer, apparently, is this Friday…
Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert is slated to testify at a congressional hearing Friday on immigration titled “Protecting America’s Harvest,” two sources have told The Daily Caller.
One Republican source said Colbert will be testifying “in character,” the Bill O’Reilly-like muse Colbert uses for his show.
A Judiciary Committee spokeswoman, confirming Colbert would testify, said the hearing matter was a “serious issue… this is not a TV stunt.”
So, is Colbert is going to be “in character,” but it’s “not a TV stunt.” Well, that pretty much clears up everything, right? I’d say that we’d give you more information as it develops, but it’s hard to imagine what new information is needed. This makes so much sense as it is.
The Colbert Report airs Monday through Thursday at 11:30pm / 10:30c.
What they are doing is very simple. Colbert is a character used to mock conservative principles. By having him testify in character, it lets them marginalize the conservative view re illegal immigration. Then they can take his statements and positions and attribute them to real conservatives and pin them to them. Very Alinsky-esque.
Just what kind of expert is he or gaga for that matter?
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