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For Undocumented Workers On Vermont Farms, 2017 Was A Year Filled With Anxiety
Vermont Public Radio ^ | January 5, 2018 | by John Dillon

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; illegalaliens; invasion; npr; ohthehugemanatee; tyranny
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Kick these ILLEGAL alien invader criminals OUT! Seize their ill-gotten assets .
21 posted on 01/05/2018 2:08:14 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Kick these ILLEGAL alien invader criminals OUT! Seize their ill-gotten assets .
22 posted on 01/05/2018 2:08:21 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Kick these ILLEGAL alien invader criminals OUT! Seize their ill-gotten assets .
23 posted on 01/05/2018 2:08:34 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Kick these ILLEGAL alien invader criminals OUT! Seize their ill-gotten assets .
24 posted on 01/05/2018 2:08:35 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Kick these ILLEGAL alien invader criminals OUT! Seize their ill-gotten assets .
25 posted on 01/05/2018 2:08:45 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

For Undocumented Workers  INVADERS  On Vermont Farms, 2017 Was A Year Filled With Anxiety 



26 posted on 01/05/2018 2:13:27 PM PST by tomkat
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m so sorry, but it is time for you to go home...I worked as a teen picking tobacco under cheesecloth in the Connecticut River Valley. It is time for teens to stop being lazy...and do farm work...I loved it and I used it to buy an Opel Kadette...


27 posted on 01/05/2018 2:24:25 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maybe time to import some Bulgarians or Rumanians for the season? They’d return home wealthy...but most importantly, they’d return home.


28 posted on 01/05/2018 2:27:24 PM PST by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ten years in prison plus a $250,000 fine for any company official or private individual employing a wetback.First offense.


29 posted on 01/05/2018 2:28:03 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Remember: All Cultures Are Equal!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“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.”

Arrest them for aiding and abetting felonies.

L


30 posted on 01/05/2018 2:28:41 PM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: ps
Until those proven to be hiring these wetback invaders: first) face debilitating fines or, second) face jail time for repeated offenses, this insanity will continue unabated.

Personally, I can easily do without lettuce & strawberries et al, and/or grow my own.

Anyone who would put same over our border security is an utter slug, unworthy of American citizenship.

/.02

31 posted on 01/05/2018 2:31:43 PM PST by tomkat
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To: 1Old Pro

Why would they want to work? There are literally hundreds of organizations and over 40 State programs devoted to helping them avoid working; everything from food stamps, WIC, Medicaid, home heating assistance, rental subsidies and rebates, etc.

At some point, hopefully sooner rather than later, the progressive ass-hats in the Legislature here will run out of people to tax. According to our Governor’s State of the State address yesterday, that could happen within a few years.


32 posted on 01/05/2018 2:32:37 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pay an American wage and benefits and I bet they can find plenty of workers. Deport illegal aliens and jail employers you insist on hiring them!


33 posted on 01/05/2018 2:39:37 PM PST by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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To: notaliberal

It’s no fun being an illegal alien


34 posted on 01/05/2018 2:45:21 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Keyhopper

Good. Seize their assets and make them pay for the flights back to their crappy countries.


35 posted on 01/05/2018 2:47:38 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
WTF?

...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.

We ALLOW the MEXICAN government to visit locations where THEIR illegals are working to assist them with immigration problems?? What is this? "Documents On Wheels"?

President Trump, please take note of yet another ridiculous practice that should be stopped immediately.

36 posted on 01/05/2018 2:48:52 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Lurker

Get time and location of the meeting and have ICE raid the place.
Ex-cons need jobs to pay child support


37 posted on 01/05/2018 2:50:59 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Lurker

to issue passports and other government documents.”

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Not as undocumented as the Ministry of Propaganda keeps telling us.........


38 posted on 01/05/2018 2:58:03 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents-Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: hal ogen

Check your selector switch ... I think it’s still set on automatic ...


39 posted on 01/05/2018 3:06:12 PM PST by BlueLancer (Black Rifle Coffee - Freedom, guns, tits, bacon, and booze!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Time to make the word “undocumented” Illegal.


40 posted on 01/05/2018 3:07:22 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Tweet softly, but carry a big stick.)
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