If illegal immigrants are deported, will you convince your kid to work in the fields?

Question

Instead of having them sponge off of you while playing video games and failing in community college?

which fields?

name one friend who wanted to work the fields and couldn't

ok for the grammar genius. Instead of having them sponge off of you while playing video games and failing in community college it should read instead of them sponging off of you while playing vidoe games and failing communit college. Will that apease all the South Dakota field workers.

I am not talking about someone who has a backyard with a couple cows and sheep and a small tomato garden I am talking about huge agricultural endeavors. I seriously doubt any of you participated in actual field work.

Answer 1

Ok were to begin with this drivel?

The percentage of crop workers to illegal MEXICANs is about 15% so I'm ok with deporting only the remaining 85% if that makes you happy.

As to BertT's learned opinion. That is complete and utter BS. The average cost to the american household would increase $9/year. Is it at all possible for you fairies to give up 11/2 Mocha Latte Frappacino's per frickin year to out way the enormous cost increase of employing Americans at a higher prevailing wage than you pay the criminals who do it now?

Don't believe me:
"Proponents of a new temporary worker program argue that increased immigration enforcement would lead to fewer illegal agricultural workers and, as a consequence, the American consumer would face a major increase in the cost of food. This is factually incorrect according to experts. Dr. Philip Martin, a leading academic authority on agricultural labor, notes that American consumers now spend more on alcoholic beverages on average than they spend on fresh fruits and vegetables.1

An average household currently spends about $370 per year on fruits and vegetables. If curtailing illegal alien agricultural labor caused tighter labor conditions and a 40 percent increase in wages, the increased cost to the American family would be $9 a year, or about 2.4 cents per day. Yet for the farm laborer, the change would mean an increase in earnings from $8,800 to $12,350 for each 1,000 hours of work (25 weeks if the worker worked 40-hour weeks). That increase would move the worker from beneath the federal poverty line to above it. 2

According to Dr. Martin, "…consumers who pay $1 for a pound of apples, or $1 for a head of lettuce, are giving 16 to 19 cents to the farmer and 5 to 6 cents to the farm worker." 3 Therefore, a 40 percent increase in the 5 to 6 cents a pound that the farm worker receives would amount to an increase of about 2 cents per pound that would probably be passed on to the consumer"

That'll be all.

Answer 2

The jobs that are being done by illegals are being payed substandard living wages. Americans would do the jobs but not for the same money. The problem here isn't the poor guy coming to this country for a better way of life but the rich a*s*s*holes who import them as slave labor so the can even be richer,holding their immigration status over their heads the whole time.
People who are caught using illegal immigrant slave labor should be severely penalized. The money from the fines should go to help people become citizens .

In fact here is the real problem with illegal immigrant labor. The rich large corporations pay them less and provide no kind of health care, so the American middle class is stuck with the added burden of taking care of them with are social services. If a company is caught with subcontracted illegal work they should be forced to pay the unions for the loss work and the state for the loss revenues in social services. Then I bet you would see some real change in immigration. As of now Haliburton would win a no-bid contract to build a wall across the border charge us billions to build it, and build every tunnel underneath it as well

Answer 3

for fun yes but not as a job.
To me School first then they can choose to do what they want to do.
Games? My kids are not in to games. That because I choose for them to do something us then games.
But I never will push my kids in working in the fields.
I haven't done it, even that I am original from a Latin American country so why now I will let my kids do that in the US.
Kind ridiculous abou that.
Always will be people that is in that kind bussines.
Well someone say that is just the rich people will be able to eat fruits and vegetables.
Not such thing is truth.
Like I say I am from a Latin AMerican country and I eat anything I want in my life even better then the US. Because everything was fresh and so.
Don't go people to extremes.
Farm people always will have people to work in the fields.
Is all kinds of job there just like farming.

Answer 4

Sure, they would do it because I taught them that no job is beneath them. But ask yourself this - how would you like to work the fields with a bunch of foreigners who wouldn't speak to you in English and would generally make your life miserable every minute of every day you were there? Many years ago I needed a job badly. I took a job in a turkey processing plant and was the only white person there. The boss showed me what to do - I was folding turkey legs under and packing the bird in ice - and the whole time people would look at me and laugh and talk but they didn't have enough guts to speak in a language I could understand. The place stunk of wet turkey feathers and I had my hands in ice all day long while standing on hard concrete, but I did it. So don't worry about any of my kids or about me because not only WILL we do it if necessary, we HAVE done it.

Answer 5

is fallacious I will offer up an answer. Me and buddies picked oranges when we were kids growing up in Brevard county in Fl., when they'd be ready to pick you could show up and they'd put you to work...it was hard work but it was money so we did it when school wasn't in. The migrant workers were very fast compared to us and made pretty good money. It's a good job for kids for sure and i would encourage mine to do it when old enough. Even though he doesn't play video games a lot (he is always outside playing some kind of ball) and is so far an honor student.

Answer 6

Even though your question is fallacious I will offer up an answer. Me and buddies picked oranges when we were kids growing up in Brevard county in Fl., when they'd be ready to pick you could show up and they'd put you to work...it was hard work but it was money so we did it when school wasn't in. The migrant workers were very fast compared to us and made pretty good money. It's a good job for kids for sure and i would encourage mine to do it when old enough. Even though he doesn't play video games a lot (he is always outside playing some kind of ball) and is so far an honor student.

Answer 7

It would be hard. They'd protest if they couldn't take their cell phones and ipods!

I'd like to add something else: it's nice to reminisce about the good old days, when the children actually did "back-breaking" labor, but it's not realistic! For those select few who live near a farm or in a rural area, perhaps, the majority of Americans do not. It won't happen for the city dwellers and they will not travel to fields to do that work.

Now, what would it take to get the "armchair patriots" to fight in the war they support so much?

Answer 8

Back before there was a significant illegal alien population up in Washington State (and perhaps elsewhere), there was still a migrant worker population. Instead of Mexicans, drifters and homeless people would work the fields. There was never a shortage of help and it was still ridiculously cheap labor...

Who needs kids when you've got bums?

Answer 9

you won't be able to deport a citizen. Now, I disagree with the regulation that gives you citizenship to the children of non-electorate. I disagree with this regulation precisely because of the way it is utilized through illegals to earnings themselves. yet even if, it is the regulation, and on your question you describe electorate of america, and ask in the adventure that they must be deported. and that is ridiculous on the face. a rustic can no longer and could no longer deport their very own electorate.

Answer 10

s I will offer up an answer. Me and buddies picked oranges when we were kids growing up in Brevard county in Fl., when they'd be ready to pick you could show up and they'd put you to work...it was hard work but it was money so we did it when school wasn't in. The migrant workers were very fast compared to us and made pretty good money. It's a good job for kids for sure and i would encourage mine to do it when old enough. Even though he doesn't play video gam