What do you think is the best way to demonstrate to our government how we feel about illegal immigration?

Question

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Answer 1

we need to find someone who is 100% against illegal immigration, who is well known, and have that person up in the governments face, all the time with this issue. the government don't understand that we don't need the illegals doing our jobs. Or, they just don't care.

we need someone who is more than willing to go out and talk to the American people about this subject. we need someone who is more than willing to go up against anyone who thinks illegals are important to this country.
and it doesn't have to be just one person...it can be a "strong" group of important people. not just the common American citizen...some one who's up there with the government.
we need someone to stay on top of this like their life depends on it.....and it does.
i want to see someone who will not back down to the govenment or anyone else who tries to get in the way.

Answer 2

I just would like to throw a big pie in all their faces on live TV. Manune pie would be fine. Their use to kissing butt they might like it.

Post it or let me do it either way would be fine.

That should tell them how I feel about everything.



tell someone on your post this-----

Give it a break--the facts below

I will speak for many farmers-the 80% who don't want illegals here. Your food is covered-most farmers do not support the big corp farms who use illegal migrant workers.

less than 10 percent by Mexico (10%pickers-less10% other farm related)--the other 90% of the farms say your welcome.



"Phillip Martin, an economist at the University of California, Davis, has demolished the argument that a crackdown on illegals would ruin it, or be a hardship to consumers. Most farming — livestock, grains, etc. — doesn't heavily rely on hired workers. Only about 20 percent of the farm sector does, chiefly those areas involving fresh fruit and vegetables.

The average "consumer unit" in the U.S. spends $7 a week on fresh fruit and vegetables, less than is spent on alcohol, according to Martin. On a $1 head of lettuce, the farm worker gets about 6 or 7 cents, roughly 1/15th of the retail price. Even a big run-up in the cost of labor can't hit the consumer very hard.

Martin recalls that the end of the bracero guest-worker program in the mid-1960s caused a one-year 40 percent wage increase for the United Farm Workers Union. A similar wage increase for legal farm workers today would work out to about a 10-dollar-a-year increase in the average family's bill for fruit and vegetables. Another thing happened with the end of the bracero program: The processed-tomato industry, which was heavily dependent on guest workers and was supposed to be devastated by their absence, learned how to mechanize and became more productive."


If every illegal alien here today currently left America, the immediate economic impact would be insignificant and over the long haul, the impact would likely be negligible.

Got it!
If cost go up-for greedy reasons-they will come down-or they go under. No problem for us at all!


Of course those who use them and have money are in the Media limelight. But the truth is they can use legal migrants and legal citizens --and survive. Again American Farmers (80%) do not approve of the big Corp Farms-mainly on border and California who are abusing the system. Let them rot there -they will claim a tax lost--but their ways would have to change in a year or two.
Nice post-no I wouldn't have to pay more-or anyone else for long!

Answer 3

One:You contact your elected officials,by phone,fax,e-mail personal letter.You Demand the borders be secured and illegals be deported ASAP! and if they don't do the job you tell them you will hire the right peroson that will and let them know your donations are going toward organizations and groups that inform us about the invasion and illega aliens. Groups like americanpatrol , cap-s , the terry anderson show ,numbers.

Two: you vote for the right candidate and vote these jokers out!, you ask that candidate thats runing if hes for securing the border and deportation or is he for open borders and that non sense path way to citizen ship crap!

Three:Call radio stations and voice your opinion, get more people on our side.


Four: boycott businesses an peolpe that support illegals.
Don't hire illegals And some time not even a so called ameican latino because it looks like there on the same side as the illegals and open border lobbyist. We should not be paying for our own over throw.

Five: Get out and join and support pro American rallys and protesters. I had a Fire FEINSTEIN Rally a few weeks ago.

Just a few of the things i do hope you do them as well..


Vote out Dianne Feinstein.
Dick Mountjoy is running against D. Feinstein for US Senate. Let's send those illegal alien loving politicians a message. Mountjoy is a Conservative Republican who represents our views...what about yours? Join his team, contribute to his campaign if possible. Let's get rid of 50%California's US Senate problems...Boxer is next!


Dick Mountjoy
for States Senate
www.mountjoyforsenate.com

Answer 4

Think the best suggestions are Osirassun,do some writting and boycotting.As for gokart's idea DO NOT GO THERE,unless you want your car totalled.I know someone who did put a similar sign as a bumper sticker on his car and the next day it was completely a mess.Windows were busted and the rear bumper looked like a baseball bat had been hit to it.so yeah not such a good idea.

Answer 5

The best way is to not hire them of course,and to endevour to find out who is not properly checking the documentation of those they employ and refusing to do business with them. At the moment our problem is the govt. they refuse to enforce current law or do their jobs. The funniest one I heard was when they were talking about the wall and bunches of people were sending the congress bricks to build it with through a website. That also ended up showing the bias built into our govt and the media on immigration because they received thousands of bricks and it got virtually ZERO press.

Answer 6

Stop making it easy for someone that cant speak English. The government is helping them by offering paper work that is in other languages then our beloved English.

There should be one language spoken here so that we can understand each other. I should not have to learn another language. And we need to stop helping illegal people that are here. If they cant talk so everyone can understand them then they dont need to be here. GO HOME NOW DO U.S. A FAVOR.

Answer 7

boycotting companys that hire illegals, try to get list of companys that hire illegals and post them so people can try not to buy from them. Try to get government to give strict punishments to those companys.,for that you need a loby group which is very expensive .Other than that things would need to be taken to a violent level and i would hate to see that........not against it though.

Answer 8

Take it upon ourselves, such as vigilantes do, and start patrolling the borders ourselves.

Also, stay on top of the politicians to enforce the laws already in place.

Answer 9

were tired of are country, and citizens being disrespected. we need to secure are borders, and check every one that comes threw.

Answer 10

You can express all you want, but it won't do you much good! The reason is the party that is in control has the most to gain from them being here, however they have a problem! Rich Republicans need the slave labor, while paleoRepublicans hate illegals! I think primarily because they are Mexican!

Given the 2 competing interest, the Republicans can do nothing, and have done nothing!

Everyone seems to be focused on the illegals! Their focus should be more properly on the ones who ARE committing the crimes by hiring them! If they had no jobs, they would not be here! Unfortunately, that is not the case!

Elections are a good start to start sending them the message as they are coming up!!


See what I mean:

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.