Posted on 05/29/2006 3:34:54 PM PDT by SJackson
OCEANSIDE, Calif. - Tomato grower Luawanna Hallstrom understands how paths cross in the shadowy world of illegal immigrant and employer.
Her three-generation family farm needed workers to harvest a crop in 2001, so it hired 300 farmhands. All their documents appeared in order, she said.
Then federal authorities found that three-fourths of the workers were illegal immigrants, and that left the peak harvest in ruins.
"People say, `You should get those employers that hire the undocumented!' Well, wait a minute. They have documents, but they're fraudulent. We are supposed to take them at face value - otherwise you get into these discrimination issues," Hallstrom said.
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misspelled "construction" -- left out the 's'
I will grant that you can grow many things if you have a luxury condo with a balcony or terrace, or even one on a high floor with sunny windows.
But what do you grow in a condo with North facing windows or a view of an airshaft that never get any direct sunlight?
Move.
Yeah. Let them eat cake.
Ok, let them eat cake. If they're not willing to do something for themselves, let them starve in fact. Sheesh. Grow up.
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