Posted on 01/05/2018 1:43:51 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
An escalation in immigration enforcement over the past year has brought a new level of anxiety for the several thousand migrant farm workers living in Vermont.
For the first time since 2010, arrests and detentions by the U.S. Border Patrol increased in Vermont, New Hampshire and northeastern New York last year.
The workers – many of them undocumented – are critically important to the state’s farm economy. To give you a sense of how important, consider that twice a year the Mexican government comes to a Vermont farm community to help hundreds of its citizens with financial and legal advice, and to issue passports and other government documents.
About 140 mostly undocumented workers turned out at a church meeting hall in Middlebury on a recent Saturday to share a warm meal with friends and to meet with their government officials.
Jose Aguilar had come over from New Hampshire to renew his passport. Our interpreter, Chris Urban, asked him when he wants to head home to Mexico. Aguilar laughs. “Tomorrow morning,” he said, “because it will be late today.”
Aguilar – who likes to practice his English – joked that he can’t leave for his home in Mexico right away because there’s a long line to get his passport renewed. But he’s not going home. And when asked why he’s in New England, and he gave the same answer as the other workers here.
“I work on the farm with the cows,” he said. “Just working, and working hard!”
Aguilar slipped back to Spanish as he talks about how living conditions for his family in Mexico, their housing – even their basic nutrition — has improved with the remittances he sends home.
“Yes," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at digital.vpr.net ...
End birth right citizenship, diversity VISA lottery, and chain migration. Enforce eVerify, and halt all social welfare programs and provide health care sufficient to ensure safe deportation. Then end new immigration for 30+ years to allow the 15 million legal immigrants time to assimilate.
If I did something illegal, I would be worried too!
They’re criminals. They SHOULD be anxious.
This article reminds me to lobby Congress to cut funding for NPR.
“The workers – many of them undocumented – are critically important to the state’s farm economy....”
Don’t care. Hire Americans or invest in farm equipment, or maybe old MacDonald needs a stay in the cooler.
More Fake News.
While the story may or may not be true, what makes this so much more Fake News is the anti-Trump agenda.
Hardly a day goes by that the liberal enemedia doesn’t post some sob story.
Boo Frickin’ Hoo.
Damned shame, ain’t it? :=)
They relocated hundreds of Muslim refugees to Rutland Vt., maybe they are looking for work?
Meanwhile, nearly 95 million Americans were without jobs under Barack Hussein Obama.
Does the MSM ever shed any tears for them? Of course not....
We need to go back to original intent. The 14th has been bastardized on this issue.
Aiding and abetting in the violation of US law by a foreign government.
Go down to any employment office. Someone could live in a rural community. There might be a great need for agriculture workers, but he'd never know it. It is an unwritten rule that Americans are not to be steered to these jobs.
Business gets the cheap labor and the taxpayer foots the bill for social support and everything else on the back end.
The taxpayer subsidizes an illegal workforce.
$20 head of lettuce and all that.
I am glad they are filled with anxiety. Criminals should worry.
Any fraudulently documented foreigner in any other country would be worried, why not here?
I’m all out of give a f***s. American and Americans first.
twice a year the Mexican government comes to a Vermont farm community to help hundreds of its citizens
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Which proves that Mexico is aiding and abetting its citizens in evading US laws.
Tell that to anyone in New England or upstate New York who is unemployed, or teenage kids looking for summer jobs or part time work.
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