No.
Unless they PROMISE to vote GOP
He sounds like a mafia boss. Another Jimmy Hoffa?
Mehlman said legalizing immigrants would encourage more illegal immigration.
Of course it would. They can sneek over, join the union, get so much money from the farmers they drive them out of business, and live on welfare for the rest of their lives. Why wouldn't it encourage more Democrat voters? They how it's done.:-P
Demands?
My kids tried this with me.
Once or twice, max.
I've picked tons of strawberries, peaches and pears during the summer and breaks in high school and college. The work was monotonous, but not terribly hard. This isn't like digging latrines or heaving sandbags for 12 hours.
What they need to do is start a program in which the farmer pays the state 90% of what it would currently cost to have the illegals do the work, then that money can go toward offsetting the cost of having the prisoners incarcerated. In return, the state supplies the labor.
I'm not suggesting the prisoners get nothing - they will get a nice breakfast, some exercise in the clean air, a bologna sandwitch and carrot sticks for lunch, all the water they can drink, a nice dinner and a bed with a roof over their heads while they reflect upon their past activities.
Meanwhile, the illegals can be identified and locked up for a year during which they can pick crops for "free" before they are deported.
No.
Unless they PROMISE to vote GOP