is this bein racist, or ignorant?

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duc602
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When are they suppose to start enforcing the Immigration Law. And start deporting these people. I just wanted?

I answer, go ask the senate or bush, or start doin it urself instead of wastin time here with poitless questions!!! il send u a card once im in TEPESCOLCHANGO!!!!


From: duc602

Subject: Re: How is this a stupid question

Message: our econonmy goes with you lol, you wet back sand ****** mother ****** son of a *****. youre destroying our economy. . oh youre leaving if its in a damn coffin. we americans are tired of you living off our damn taxes. your females breed like damn **** roaches . nobody here likes you people. even the legal immigrants from mexico dont even like you. so before you call someone a redneck you river rat . best look in the damn mirror. it makes me laugh everytime i hear about one of you mother ******* dying of thirst coming across the desert . doesnt make a damn to me if its a mexican woman child old people doesnt matter.

Answer 1

Fascist Republican who hates everyone. There really is no place in America for them as they are against everything that holds us together as a nation! They want to rip it apart with their racist, homophobic, xenophobe remarks, and then can't even use any civility!

Hate to tell them that all America is not wasps, and it is his neocon friends who WANT the illegals!!!

Labor shortage could mean crisis for ag

Ali Bay
Capital Press Staff Writer

DAVIS – Growers and farm labor contractors are scrambling to find enough workers to harvest their crops this fall and some say the worker shortage is escalating to crisis proportions.

Western Growers, the agricultural trade association that represents growers, packers and shippers of fresh fruits and vegetables in California and Arizona, is asking government officials to recognize the labor crisis.

Western Growers estimates that in the Central Valley alone, there is a shortage of about 70,000 farmworkers.

“It’s quickly reaching a crisis level and it’s possibly already done so,” said Tim Chelling, a spokesman for the industry group.

Chelling said growers are likely to lack the field workers needed to harvest some of the fall and winter crops in California. If crops are left in the field, an economic crisis will likely follow, he said.

Western Growers is appealing to the Department of Homeland Security and state governments in California and Arizona to help provide a stable work force for agriculture, while still securing the nation’s borders.

“The time to act has now arrived,” said Tom Nassif, president of Western Growers. “We are not asking for action to resolve the nation’s overall immigration crisis in the next couple of weeks. We know that’s simply not possible and completely unrealistic. We are asking for officials to acknowledge this labor crisis in agriculture and provide immediate remedies so that farmers, consumers and state economies don’t suffer what amounts to completely avoidable economic damage.”

There are many reasons why California doesn’t have the number of workers it has in the past, said Luawanna Halstrom, general manager and chief operating officer of Harry Singh and Sons, a company that produces vine-ripened tomatoes near San Diego.

Tighter border control and random raids have reduced the number of workers crossing the borders. The construction business is booming in California, pulling workers away from agriculture and into higher-paying jobs. Mexican workers are also opting to work in Canada under that country’s guest worker program.

“Agriculture is crying out for a legal means to hire labor,” said Halstrom, who also serves on the labor committee for the American Farm Bureau Federation. “That’s what we need. We’ve never been in more dire straits.”

Earlier this year, federal lawmakers introduced the Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act of 2005, better known as the AgJOBS Bill, which could provide farmers a stable workforce.

While the bill is widely supported by agriculture, a similar piece of legislation failed last year due to lack of support from President George W. Bush and the Republican leadership.

The only way Halstrom says she has been able to find a consistent seasonal workforce for her business is by relying on outdated immigration policies and providing housing for employees.

“It is extremely difficult,” she said. “It has affected our ability to farm the way we normally would. It has cost us.”

Right now, the labor shortage is impacting the Central Valley’s raisin industry, where thousands of acres are waiting to be harvested.

The Nisei Farmer’s League has been trying to find labor anywhere it can to help farmers – even considering using parolees, a plan that didn’t work.

Nisei has also appealed for help from the Employment Development Department offices in the Central Valley, but so far the state agency has only been able to call up the names of several thousand unemployed workers who might be able to work in the agricultural industry.

“We just can’t get the crops harvested,” said Manuel Cunha, president of the Fresno-based group. “We’ve got to develop immigration programs that fit the industry,” he said.

Halstrom said the current labor shortage reminds her of the days following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center.

Nearly 75 percent of her workforce didn’t pass detailed checks following the attacks. Although the company immediately looked into utilizing the existing federal guest worker program, which many say doesn’t suit agriculture’s needs, it took 45 days to get enough workers to continue harvesting their perishable commodity.

“And then when (the workers) got here, it took them two weeks just to clear out the rotten fruit,” Halstrom said. “We lost $2.5 million in a 45-day period. It was absolutely devastating.”

Halstrom hopes politicians will hear agriculture’s call for help.

“I think this country needs to understand that a critical element of its national security is to have a safe and reliable food source,” she said. “If there’s an interruption (in our food supply), the country has basically a seven-day supply of food.”

That’s reason enough not to continue sweeping the immigration problem under the carpet, she said.


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Raid nets 25 illegal workers
CANNERY: Arrested men came from Mexico and had tourist visas.

By MEGAN HOLLAND
Anchorage Daily News

Published: August 3, 2006
Last Modified: August 3, 2006 at 03:39 AM


Authorities raided a Kenai fish-processing plant last week and arrested 25 young Mexicans on tourist visas who were posing as legal workers and employed on the cannery's "slime line," federal officials said Wednesday.


The Mexican nationals, all between 18 and 20, were flown to Seattle where they are undergoing deportation, officials said.

Authorities were first alerted to the workers when a state trooper visited Snug Harbor Seafoods on July 18 looking for a automobile that had been in a single-vehicle accident, troopers spokesman Greg Wilkinson said.

Wilkinson said that trooper Larry Erickson found the driver and passengers of the car and a dozen others camped out on plant grounds, which is where many cannery workers live for extended periods of time during the summer seasonal work. He asked to see their visa papers. The Mexicans showed the trooper their tourist visas and said they were just visiting.

Troopers notified federal authorities of their suspicions that the workers were illegally in the country.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided the plant July 28. Wilkinson said 23 Mexican nationals were arrested while two more fled into nearby woods. Immigration officials say they were eventually caught.

All were transported to Anchorage, where they were put on a flight to Seattle.

Immigration officials did not know how long the workers had been in the United States.

Snug Harbor Seafoods owner Paul Dale said the young Mexicans showed up in person to apply for the jobs and told him they were college students in Mexico. They presented him with what he thought were legitimate residency papers that allowed them to work.

They began work at the cannery, which employs about 150 workers, in June, Dale said. They processed salmon for $7.25 an hour on the slime line, where the fish are first brought in, gutted and filleted.

"They were good kids," Dale said of the workers. "We regret the incident."

The Alaska seafood processing industry provides jobs for more than 19,000 people each year, not including jobs on fishing vessels, according to the state.

"Getting enough process workers is a challenge," said Stephanie Madsen, vice president of the Pacific Seafood Processors Association.

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AP) A Texas employment agency was sentenced to five years of probation for hiring illegal immigrants to work at the nation's top producer of military battlefield rations, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

The Tollin Group was also fined $20,000 and ordered to pay $414,000 in civil penalties Wednesday. It has been barred from Department of Defense contracts for three years.

The San Antonio-based company, which does business as Remedy Intelligent Staffing, pleaded guilty in January to hiring illegal immigrants and trying to cover it up by falsifying employment eligibility forms. The workers were hired for Wornick Co., which makes MREs _ or "meals ready-to-eat."

The investigation was initiated in February 2003 after an al-Qaida operative was arrested with information pointing to McAllen and Wornick as terrorist targets. Wornick had been awarded a $47 million contract to produce more than 1.1 million MREs for U.S. forces in Iraq.

The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force ran background checks on Wornick employees and found hundreds of temporary employees with fraudulent documentation.

No direct link to terrorism was found.

Who needs whom????

Answer 2

wow.. um... WOW. First of all, it's ignorant because it just makes the person debating the issue look like a heartless b*stard... second of all, it's pretty racist. Personally, I'm not too thrilled with all of the immigrants just because they don't seem to realize that coming to america doesn't make it all better. You also have to work hard, something you are going to have to do if you want to be able to survive in this country. Plus, they really can't get good jobs without a green card... it's a tough issue with stupid people on both sides.

Answer 3

"Enforcing" Immigration Law would require that everyone working under someone else's social security number, suddently felt good being here and started paying the taxes they leave up to the owner of the Tax number to care for.

But that would upset all the drive-thru windowed restaurants we all frequent so much.

Answer 4

this is a racist ignorant thing to say. actually illegal immigrants take less in services than they pay in taxes, and they help keep prices low, because no american is going to pick fruit for $4 an hour. please whoever wrot this not only retarded, racist, and uninformed, but they don't even address the real issues. so please, next time, just shut up and keep your stupid opinions to yourself

Answer 5

It sounds like a very scared individual who has a narrow way of thinking. Instead of getting mad pity them. Their comfort zone that they have gotten used to has been challenged,some people don't don't do well with change.

Answer 6

Both

Answer 7

damn thats both ignorant and racist. man who ever wrote that should get a life.

Answer 8

WOW! That was cruel and extremely racist! She has a lot of pent up anger.

Answer 9

how stupid, ridiculous and ignorant he sounded.
stupid racist shouldnt be allowed here

Answer 10

Very racist and ignorant.

Answer 11

some people will never learn
Not everyone can be accepting