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California Crops Rot as Immigration Crackdown Creates Farmworker Shortage
Fortune ^
Posted on 08/10/2017 4:25:13 PM PDT by SMGFan
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posted on
08/10/2017 4:25:13 PM PDT
by
SMGFan
To: SMGFan
remember when kids had summer jobs...?
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posted on
08/10/2017 4:26:16 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: SMGFan
Just think what we’re saving in government money not going toward their large families.
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posted on
08/10/2017 4:26:51 PM PDT
by
Old Yeller
(Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
To: SMGFan
... PEW Research Center reports more Mexicans are leaving the U.S. than coming here.
Hallelujah! At last.
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posted on
08/10/2017 4:29:01 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(Holding on to anger is like grabbing a hot coal to throw at someone. You are the one burned ~Buddah)
To: SMGFan
Get the able bodied welfare cases to help out.
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posted on
08/10/2017 4:29:09 PM PDT
by
OttawaFreeper
("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
To: SMGFan
The “who is supposed to pick our cotton?” argument.
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posted on
08/10/2017 4:29:52 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: SMGFan
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posted on
08/10/2017 4:30:35 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.))
To: SMGFan
Boo Freakin' hoo.
We have specific immigration allowances for migrant farm labor. Perhaps if California cracked down on Illegal Aliens collecting welfare there would be more people available to pick the crops.
I'm sure California minimum wage laws aren't helping either.
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posted on
08/10/2017 4:30:48 PM PDT
by
LonePalm
(Commander and Chef)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/10/2017 4:31:35 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
("If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck." - John Steinbeck)
To: SMGFan
They should allow more work visas with the stipulation that if they overstay they will be permanently banned.
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posted on
08/10/2017 4:32:01 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(I'm tired of the Cult of Clinton. Wish she would just pass out the Koolaide)
To: SMGFan
No mention of illegal or even "undocumented". Hmmmm. They can't hide it behind a euphemistic lie, so they'll just ignore the issue.
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posted on
08/10/2017 4:32:47 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
To: SMGFan
$13mil loss is exaggerated.
In two counties that much falls off the trucks each year.
I’ve lived in this valley for decades and this is the farmers and their distributors bitching about having to pay the Mexicans more than the normal pittance.
This is a non issue.
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posted on
08/10/2017 4:33:51 PM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Viking2002
Millions of people who are healthy collecting welfare sitting home doing nothing.
You can bet these farmers will now write off the crops and get disaster aid from their crop insurance. Quite a racket. So the taxpayers will eat the cost no matter what
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posted on
08/10/2017 4:34:11 PM PDT
by
doosee
(Captain, we are approaching a new level of Hell.)
To: SMGFan
Don’t predicate your business on illegal practices, idiots.
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posted on
08/10/2017 4:34:29 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: SMGFan
Want to pay $10 for a head of lettuce?
We already do through our taxes.
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posted on
08/10/2017 4:34:47 PM PDT
by
x1stcav
(White. Male. Unreconstructed. Never owned a slave.)
To: BenLurkin
Yup, bring back convict labor.
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posted on
08/10/2017 4:35:00 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: Secret Agent Man
“...remember when kids had summer jobs...?”
Growing up in Wisconsin, we Rural Kids either de-tassled corn or trimmed Christmas Trees in the summer months.
The, ‘cool’ City Kids worked at the Pool or at the Dairy Queen (Ice Cream) or the A&W Drive-In (Hamburgers, Root Beer and Cute Girls on Roller Skates taking your order).
Thank a Democrat for producing the past two Generations of USELESS Americans. Everything Democrats TOUCH turns to manure!
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posted on
08/10/2017 4:36:50 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
To: SMGFan
Pay enough money so that American Citizens will want to work for you.
Problem solved!
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posted on
08/10/2017 4:37:00 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SMGFan
I call BS. Why can’t the farmworkers get green cards to work here like they did before. What’s the matter, they don’t want to make money anymore? They can’t get green cards anymore? I didn’t realize that had changed.
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posted on
08/10/2017 4:37:38 PM PDT
by
deweyfrank
(Nobody's Perfect)
To: artichokegrower
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posted on
08/10/2017 4:38:38 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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