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Article #1476Re: Only illegal human trash can pick tomatoes?
From: Rudy Canoza
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:59
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:59
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Larry in AZ wrote: > Waiving the right to remain silent, Rudy Canoza > <pipes@thedismalscience.net> said: > >> That's a pretty far cry from the 10 million (minimum) >> illegal aliens working in the country today, not to >> mention another 10 million or so of their non-working >> illegal alien relatives. The bracero program also was >> just that: a government sanctioned and regulated >> program. Despite all the hysterical anti-immigrant >> sentiment from some, I think the large majority of >> Americans would approve of a regulated guest worker >> program, provided it didn't lead to some kind of fast >> track to permanent residence. > > You bring up a much neglected point. Most of the illegals here are NOT > working. Even Rick Sanchez in some of his CNN reporting (usually biased > toward immigrant Hispanics) admits this is true. > > Recently, he was interviewing mostly Mexican day laborers who claimed that > they were lucky to get a day or two per week. Most hang out at the pick- > up points, but go home without any work. > > Yet, the tidal wave continues. The news that there is not enough > employment here hasn't filtered down there yet. > > Or perhaps it's better to be unemployed on the streets of the USA than to > be in the same position in Mexico and farther south... Those illegal aliens who work in agriculture tend to stay busy throughout the growing season and harvest seasons. Keep in mind that many illegal alien workers in urban areas don't seek work at day labor sites, but have regular jobs.
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X-Google-Thread: f514b,e6530a5b7d81b0ff X-Google-Thread: 10fa57,e6530a5b7d81b0ff X-Google-Thread: 104eff,e6530a5b7d81b0ff X-Google-Thread: fca2b,e6530a5b7d81b0ff X-Google-Attributes: gidf514b,gid10fa57,gid104eff,gidfca2b,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!eweka.nl!lightspeed.eweka.nl!82.197.223.104.MISMATCH!feeder4.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!217.73.144.44.MISMATCH!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!216.196.110.148.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-10!sn-xt-ams-04!sn-post-ams-01!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Rudy Canoza <pipes@thedismalscience.net> Newsgroups: misc.rural,ok.general,ca.politics,az.politics Subject: Re: Only illegal human trash can pick tomatoes? Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:59:17 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <13ihk6r65mo4888@corp.supernews.com> Reply-To: leif@norvege.no User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1193796093.221054.111340@k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <1193832420.602797.303300@z9g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <g5chi3dv6jgeav6h9a0msl2jn03jm2ce72@4ax.com> <13ihfpmt918u051@corp.supernews.com> <Xns99DA73BB7D4thefrogprince@69.28.173.184> In-Reply-To: <Xns99DA73BB7D4thefrogprince@69.28.173.184> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 34