You have a faith that I lack. GWB gives frequent indications that he is a willing part of the problem.
I hope I'm wrong.
Posted on 11/22/2002 10:47:08 PM PST by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:59:08 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The Bush administration wants to grant amnesty to hundreds of thousands of Mexican illegal aliens now in the United States, according to the new U.S. ambassador to Mexico.
Tony Garza, sworn in this week at the White House, told reporters in Mexico City that reaching an accord legalizing the status of Mexican immigrants
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When I was 14 years old I worked the mucks, picking lettuce and tomatoes for .50 cents an hour like a lot of kids my age did. Don't tell me American kids won't do this. Adults will too if the pay is good. In Australia, many men do it for a living.
Well, actually, in our part of the country - braceroes were doing it in 1950.
I have agreed there is the possibility of some need for agriculture workers. Although, I think it is grossly overstated. But that can be addressed by a temporary worker program.
Now my other answer to the farm workers is, without subsidized farm workrs, someone, somewhere will come up with mechicanized answers to a lot of these jobs. But why produce a machine when farmers have this great bounty of workers supported by the American taxpayer?
But this kind of answer is a great smokescreen and a balm for those who are for illegal immigration. I would like to have some facts on the percentage of Mexican workers actually doing farm work (that no one else will do) and those doing other work that has displaced American workers. I think the old, clean our toilets and harvest our lettuce has been greatly overused - but effectively until people really give it some thought.
But in case you don't know it, we are importing a huge amount of food from Mexico.
But imports of products and deportation of jobs is another destructive practice we could debate all day.
You have a faith that I lack. GWB gives frequent indications that he is a willing part of the problem.
I hope I'm wrong.
I guess when you were that age, child labor laws hadn't been passed yet.
Where I am we have tons of strawberry fields and apple orchards with very little cheap foreign labor working them. It's being done by the locals for a livable wage, not to mention the farmers have automated machinery to assist them.
The cheap labor lobby wants an easy way out. I think it's time we stopped giving it to them.
I was being sarcastic and real.
No, I truly believe the laws we have can be enforced. Our President just has to have the will to do it. So far he, like his predecessor does not have that will. It is the will that is lacking - we have the laws. If the will is lacking to enforce these laws - it will be lacking to enforce any other meaningful law. That is my point and I don't speak for others.
My point, we have the laws, use them. To allow the President to hide behind "We need new laws, and then we can fix everything", is just a delaying tactic. How long before those laws are passed? How much more damage can be done while any meaningful law is debated to death in Congress? That is my point. Just enforce the ones we have. Don't try to flim-flam us by saying you are trying to fix the problem with new laws - it just doesn't ring true.
What you think I'm making it up? We were allowed to work a limited number of hours, something like 16 to 20 per week after school. You ever hear of paper boys?
This is what is most troubling -- OFFICIAL policy straight from the Bush White House which actually REWARDS and SANCTIONS the invasion of U.S. borders.
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