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originally posted by: usernameconspiracy
Do you know how many people from around the world come in on work or student visas each year? How to you suggest we monitor them? Many are nowhere to be found when that visa expires. And in that scenario are we simply allowing the farms to pay them the fifty cents an hour that they do illegally (both in paying them and in paying them below minimum wage) and just accept we have a new slave labor force?
originally posted by: Xtrozero
I agree we need them, but not 12 million as I said before pickers and farm workers only account for less than 500,000 of the 12 million, and most of the pickers maintain a house back in their country and working here is paying for it all.
originally posted by: Aazadan
It's a slightly different issue for the non farm workers but still related. I assume the ones you have a problem with are the ones who come here, maybe work and if they do it's low value work like being a cashier in a spanish neighborhood convenience store.
We can start by building the wall and finding companies that use these workers. We need to cut off the work to force these companies to hire Americans or it will cost them a lot.
When your culture is grounded in being farm labor parents are going to teach their children, people exchange tips, and that culture tends to be very good at it.
When you have jobs that need to be done and they're important it's a good idea to not get rid of the people that know how to do that job.
Lets face it, we all know that if we get rid of these people that Americans are not going to do the jobs for what these people are working for. In Georgia they couldn't get people to work the fields at $20/hour. It literally just rotted in the field since there was no one to pick it.
It is not that Americans won't work as field laborers. They just refuse to be slave workers for big agribusiness corporations that are solely for profit and the people of the world be damned.
It's hot, hard, and dirty work. Why would anyone ever do that for a wage that isn't enough to raise a family on, take vacations, have a real retirement, purchase a home, or in any other way qualify at even lower middle class status.
originally posted by: crazyewok
originally posted by: yuppa
originally posted by: crazyewok
originally posted by: yuppa
originally posted by: crazyewok
originally posted by: yuppa
originally posted by: buster2010
a reply to: anon72
Stop acting like they should be afforded the same rights as legal US citizens.
They do have the same rights. The Constitution covers everyone in America whether they are a citizen or not.
Under the NDAA we could label them invaders legally and whoopsie there goes that.
But do you want to become a nation no better than China or Russia?
You have a problem but do you want to sacrifice your souls to sort it? Or go for better ways like like blocking welfare and employment to immigrants making immigration pointless.
country to what image I may portray on ATS I rather like most Americans (its your government I take issue with), and it would sadden me to see the American people go down a dark path and sacrifice what makes them special.
Crazy id LOVE to see them block welfare and jobs to immigrants but then youd have mass homeless because it still be better than being in mexico.
Unfortunatly the government has screwed th epooch so bad on this its almost no way to fix it save doing that. But hey I wont vot e on it so im not gonna be responsible for their actions. They do what they want no matter what we say anyway.
And if they are homeless ? So what?
They wont be taking welfare and they wont be taking jobs.
And if your police can put down the donaughts and stop wasting there time chasing pot smokers and shooting black people they can pick some of these new homeless up, check out there background and ID and if Illegal deport them.
No special task force, no more Alphabets for your Alphabet soup, No extra money and more importantly no erosion of civil liberty's and humans rights.
You got a point Crazy but i also see th e majority turning to crime if they cant get anything out of us anymore. Also i think its a cruelty to pander to them or grant them the same legal standing as a us citizen when they are not. its misleading giving them false hope.
And as soon as they resort to crime the LEO and agencys (cause god knows you have to many of them already ) can pick them up jail them and then deport them.
How would ANOTHER alphabet agency help?
originally posted by: introvert
A deportation force, huh?
Is this what America has become and what we find acceptable?
We are going to allow the government to create a force in which they have the ability to uproot people, detain them and ship them off to wherever?
What about due process? What happens if they make a mistake.....error in the system?
This is a bad, bad deal and no one should support gestapo-like tactics. If Obama or a Leftist had said something like this we would be calling them Hitler.
originally posted by: MOMof3
a reply to: Xtrozero
I went to AZ to visit my in laws. They showed me a big wall, and I saw some blimp flying around. And they pulled my blue eyed blonde hair tush over and scared me at the check point miles from the border. All I can figue is, I had Wash. plates. I had no dope, gun, or anything except luggage. Uh oh, I drift.
What are they going to about the oceans? And would not everify be cheaper than manpower of finding the law breaking companies?
originally posted by: deadeyedick
We do not need a deportation force as bad as we need Obama to stop bringing in refugees that are 70%male into new Orleans.