See, there you have it.
The Mexican migrant labor situation in California has been cruel in the past, just don’t know about the present situation. Those laborers were treated by the farmers in a very inhumane manner.
Someone I knew whose family came west from Oklahoma during the Depression told me his whole family used to work as migrant farm labor in the 30s, 40s, 50s and on into the 60s. He went to trade school, became an electrician and bought a home for a stable type of life. But sometimes he’ll dream about the poverty of growing up as farm labor, and he would wake up sweating.
I hope this bill crashes and burns anyway. It raises the bar very high to prove illegal hiring and it preempts local state efforts. CAPS is not supporting it and our group in Houston is warning against it. Numbers USA is completely OFF THEIR ROCKER ON THIS BILL. Grassley’s version is fine. Smith’s bill will destroy the recent SCOTUS ruling on E-Verify whereby localities have a right to enforce. STEER CLEAR!
And the people lobbying for imported, stoop labor aren't making things any easier.
People forget this, but before there was the Minuteman Project there was Caesar Chavez.