[Dog Gone]

I specifically used strawberries as an example. If you want to pretend that the whole discussion about immigration turns on strawberries, either you are being dishonest or you can't read.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Even so, it's kind of silly to expect commercial farms to employ young kids after school to do the manual labor for three hours or so.

We do have some Mexicans in NY State doing this work now, primarily in Western NY. But what a lot of these farms do is grow the crop, and then open the fields up to customers who come and pick what they want themselves, especially with the berries. For local produce making the stores, seasonal labor within the area is recruited for the jobs.

What is silly is the idea we have to import nearly the entire country of Mexico to do this for us.

[AAABEST]

....either you are being dishonest or you can't read.

It's even worse, I'm dishonest and I can't read. I'm learning a lot from you today, it all started with the strawberries and went up hill from there.

Here's what I've learned. We should encourage lawlessness, suck from our socialistic services (which are sucikng the life out of everything already anyway), ruin our schools faster than they're being ruined now, pay stratospheric property and other taxes, burden a healthcare system that's slowly becoming unsupportable, make the WOT a joke from a national security perspective, pack our jails and put up with Americans being victimized and even killed.

All so we can have people to pick things and clean toilets.

Excuse me while I go work on my honesty and reading skills.

[u-89]

There are many reasons behind this immigration issue. Yes the Dems want voters and business wants cheap labour. As I just sated in another post these people ship money home and it helps the economies in their homelands which helps our banks which help our economy but there is one very big reason for this giant influx of immigrants that both parties have good reason to support. It is Social Security. Our popluation has not reproduced in the numbers required to keep that ponzi scheme going. We need to import people to keep the tax base up and both parties know it.
BTW you said something about all the construction needing the imported labour or nothing would get done. How much less construction would be going on if we weren't bring in this large amount of people every year?