Western Growers works to stop Goodlatte bill

The Packer ^ | Jan. 19, 2018 | Tom Karst

[ptsal]

The agricultural community has issues that need to be addressed: anchor babies, chain migration, voting, etc.

[gaijin]

The DACA fix also includes amnesty for the parents of the DACA kids.

The original argument was “the kids should not be legally responsible for the crimes of the parents”

well why shouldn’t the parents be responsible for the crimes of the parents instead of being rewarded..???

[LIConFem]

The fact that any industry has benefited from poor immigration policy in the past does not mean we shouldn’t change our laws to suit the needs of the entire country.

[11th_VA]

Headline: According to Nassif, the House passage of the continuing resolution included a commitment to vote on Goodlatte’s bill by the end of February !!!

[phoneman08]

Just how many illegal workers does the AG community need for heavens sakes? California is crawling in them.

[bobrlbob]

They want cheap labor, no they want Slave Labor.

[headstamp 2]

Let them bear the total costs for the illegals then. Welfare, housing, food stamps, all of it.

The taxpayers have had enough.

[Bigg Red]

Exactly.

[Bigg Red]

From Wikipedia:

The Western Growers Association (WGA) is an association representing family farmers growing produce in the states of California and Arizona....

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I plan to attempt to find out which growers support helping illegals so that I can stop buying their products.

[Bigg Red]

Well said.

[Bigg Red]

I went to the website for Western Growers Association hoping to find a list of members so that I can boycott their products. No list. Closest I came to identifying members was a page of testimonials, but it features the names of only 8 farms. Betting there are more members than this.

[Rebelbase]

The east coast farmers I know who hire properly documented migrant farm hands provide them with housing, utilities and pay the doc bills for work related injuries.

[Nifster]

They like cheap labor that they can abuse

Tough. Learn to mechanize

[Bookshelf]

The objection: “The proposed H-2C program would be devastating to our membership as it fails to provide adequate assurances for our current and future workforce needs,” Nassif said in the e-mail. “Under the Goodlatte bill, all current unauthorized farmworkers would be required to become guest workers under the H-2C program, which mandates they return to their home country before participating in the guest worker program.”
The reality; This is similar to the Bracero program of decades past that worked very well until Cesar Chavez and his phony farm workers killed it.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The growers don't even try to recruit Americans. There are plenty of unemployed Americans who would be happy to work for the growers. The fact that the growers provide a clean place to live for seasonal workers would be icing on the cake for many marginalized American citizens.
 

[itsahoot]

Here is your migrant worker's future.

[eldoradude]

That’s right...farmbots coming sooner than you thought.

[itsahoot]

Check this link for Automated stuff that is either available or soon to be. Amazing stuff that people really don't have the time to seek out.

Automated Fruit Picking

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ptsal.