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  86emmm
  June 12th, 2011 on 2:03 pm

  Haven`t bought lettuce in yrs. 0r anything I don`t grow MYSELF !
  CALL -OUR- Congress @ 866 220 0044
  DEMAND -OUR- IMMIGRATION LAWS BE ENFORCED !
  E-verify -ALL- JOBS & GOV`t. PROGRAMS->section-8 , welfare , foodstamps , wic. etc. !
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  ATTRITION THROUGH ENFORCEMENT !
  Call I.C.E. @ 866 347 2423 to REPORT illegal aliens & THEIR EMPLOYERS !
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  google->  Work in the states build a life in Mexico  -> To see that BETTER LIFE !
  thanks
  GOD BLESS THE U.S.!!!
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  JoeS
  June 12th, 2011 on 2:53 pm

  “On one hand we have a lot of people who just want to work and take care of their families. They are not terrorists. They actually contribute to the building of America.”

  Hugh,   is there a LEGAL mechanism in place NOW that allows agricultural labor to come into the US  LEGALLY?
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    Hugh Holub
    June 13th, 2011 on 10:57 am

    Very marginal program….and it takes years for people to get a work visa. And then when people get into the country legally, they overstay their visas and the federal government can’t track and find them.

    Some serious reform is needed in the whole visa and tracking process which is not getting much attention.
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  JoeS
  June 12th, 2011 on 3:02 pm

  Not to mention,  technology can easily replace the stoop laborers.   Just think of the life time of ergonomic injuries we are saving them from if we continue to allow them to be exploited……

  The below infor is four years old,  rest assured the technology has progressed eben further.  We no longer need to support State sponsored slavery…the future is here,  the future is now.   8^)

  “Machines tackle hard to harvest lettuce, citrus crops

  Remarkable progress has been made in the effort to harvest two of California’s billion-dollar-plus crops mechanically — citrus and lettuce. If the citrus harvester proves itself useful, it can probably be applied to a range of tree fruits that have persistently defied harvest by machines. 
  The methods and techniques employed by both are as spectacular as the breakthrough itself, considered all but impossible as recently as 10 years ago. For citrus, newly developed units rely heavily on the latest photoelectric imagery and computer science to map an orchard ready for harvest. Then, sophisticated hydraulic robotics take over, read the map and pluck the fruit from the trees.
  Both machines are costly — around $350,000 for the citrus system, and nearly $500,000 for the lettuce unit. However, the machines’ efficiencies put the costs in perspective, and getting high-value crops picked when hand labor is at a minimum justifies otherwise unsustainable inputs.
  Daylight is not required for the citrus-harvesting system to operate. That makes 18-hour days routine. Hand crews often pick for only six hours a day, after waiting for overnight moisture to evaporate, and then harvesting at top speed to avoid the approaching darkness of short winter days
  If the “scout” unit that precedes the harvester does its job properly, fruit that is misshapen or not adequately colored or not otherwise matured will be left on the trees, minimizing the work that graders must do after the fruit goes to the packinghouse. Ted Batkin at the Citrus Research Center in Visalia has shepherded the development of the citrus unit for years.
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  Brittanicus
  June 13th, 2011 on 1:05 pm

  WE THE PEOPLE.AMNESTY or as the Pro-illegal immigration groups prefer to label it–Immigration Reform. The truth is not ever going to happen? The 1986 IRCA was a utter calamity and costly for taxpayers. The 1986 (IRCA) Immigration Control and Reform Act that was a mass amnesty, which became the prime deception, played on the American taxpayer of all time. Because of despicably fraud and supreme neglect, the 2 million farmer’s laborers and other illegal workers who were provided a legal course to citizenship, that ultimately turned into 6 million. Even inexplicable those people, who received this pardon, vanished from their usual places of employment and turned up in the job force around the country that Americans citizens had to compete with.  Future wise, Congress proposed the I-9 Form (Employment Eligibility Verification Form.) to ensure that all employees presented documentary proof of their legal eligibility, to accept employment in the United States. If the employee has a hiring issue, and chooses to contest an irregularity notice, the employer prints out the “Referral Letter” from the E-Verify program.The letter contains information about resolving the problem, as well as the contact information for the (SSA) Social security Administration) or (USCIS) US Citizenship and Immigration Service, depending on which bureau was the source of the non-authorization to resolve the problem? As constantly the open border zealots, US Chamber of Commerce, ACLU and a radical mix of anti American organizations, have used the Liberal Press as a fulcrum to regrettably try to suppress the implementation of E-Verify. Are we not in the poorhouse with China, as it is? But this is no firm binder, because millions more people will strive to reach here, before that ominous Using the media these groups have also brought pressure on the administration not to espouse the Secure Communities law, which identifies criminal aliens through fingerprints by informing ICE. Then Subsequently E-Verify that is increasingly more popular each day by business owners. They are now cautiously aware that an I-9 audit puts their business license in jeopardy, as upheld by the Supreme Court.NOW THE RUSH HAS BEGAN TO  DEFEND CITIZENS AND LEGAL RESIDENTS  AGAINST THE ILLEGAL  ALIEN  INVASION. FIRST ARIZONA, NOW  ALABAMA, GEORGIA  AND  SOON MANY MORE STATES WILL FOLLOW.  E-VERIFY  IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND THOUSANDS OF FOREIGNERS  NOT WANTING  BE CONFRONTED  THESE LAWS,  WILL  HEAD FOR  THOSE STATES THAT  HAVE BEEN KIDNAPPED  BY THE  LEFTIST PROGRESSIVES OF OPEN  BORDERS AGENDA’S.As with the 1986 (IRCA) bill those who advocate against the laws are profiteers for more wealth, or to accumulate more votes or just to prepare America (according to the WikiLeaks group founder Julian Assange in secret documents) for merging with some kind of traitorous program, with Canada and Mexico with one currency. This stealth agenda was collusion between the Canadian and American Ambassadors.The other side of the aisle on the corrupt Washington beltway, says we cannot afford to enforce immigration laws? Then my question we had better figure someway, for as the law stands we are just encouraging more illegal newcomers? So the second question, when does this invasion end, when does the lawmakers install laws, that make it impossible to stop this travesty? Are we just going to leave the doors open and hope for the best? All we are encouraging is even more poverty and distressed people, that taxpayers have to bear the full fiscal impact? Ten years from now, population numbers will be skyrocketing and the only winners are the profit-takers.Whether we are coming out this miserable recession or not, we cannot afford any immigration amnesty. The first Amnesty in 1986 Ronald Reagan’s term of office, cost–$76 BILLION DOLLARS–by the time it was fulfilled. In today money it’s expected to cost $2.6 TRILLION DOLLARS as stated the Heritage Foundation. So taxpayers would be expected to cover that bill, lending most of it from China again? Are we not in the poorhouse with China, as it is? But this is no firm binder, because millions more people will strive to reach here, before that ominous inauguration day of a new Immigration Reform bill. If Congress is unable to cut spending in this recent of 14 .5 Trillion dollars US Treasury deficit, can anybody in the right frame of mind, tell us where we intend to get another $2.5 trillion dollars, to subsidize those illegal immigrants already living here? These dollars are inconceivable and even if there was another. It’s outrageous that Washington politicians would expect to bleed even more money from traumatic Taxpayers, when we are confronted by rejuvenating two nations abroad, in millions of dollars a day.Amnesty, it will only further multitudes of people to come here?  Washington legislators come and go, author bills, but are never held accountable for the financial wrecks they leave behind? Only Secure Communities, E-Verify can mitigate some of the pressure that will make foreign nationals think twice before crossing the border, or entering America by other means. This isn’t about any particular race, a person’s politics, religion as we are all suffering. It’s not even about the legal Hispanic population, as they are under the same pain of finding a job, stagnant wages and some type of exploitation. We are all the same boat and without stringent restrictions on immigration and its costs, that boat is heading towards rough waters and could easily sink. The TEA PARTY will slow down this process by confronting Washington aggressively on birthright citizenship to rescind it, which will sever the bond of 300.000 babies from foreign nation getting instant citizenship; cutting down on the annual monolithic cost to subsidize these offspring and families.It will also bring to a halt, which it attributed to this wrongly conferred law, saving taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars a year? The TEA PARTY will examine these unfair taxes placed on Americans, by Liberal oriented courts, to appoint obligations to educate, provide health care that comes with the never ending tide of illegal aliens skirting our laws. The TEA PARTY will created bills to up the penalty, for entering America as a felony. This should have been the law of the land, decades ago? Personally, it has always translated to prove there was no serious intention to enforce these laws.  It’s in the vein of a conspirator’s reason, why the Southern border fences completion remains a fiasco. The Tea Party will enforce the 1986 (IRCA) law as was planned, with no complicity of government agencies to stifle those laws, such as the business influence.The TEA PARTY in 2012 will remove the Liberal influence and even have the empowerment to construct the real border fence, and mandating with no exemptions E-Verify and Secure Communities and indefinitely remove Sanctuary Cities nationwide. As the Tea Party grows against the powerful influences in Washington, these Representatives like TEA PARTY Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota will retire those pro-illegal immigrant politicians, Governors, mayors and all those who have adversely affected strong laws that have been introduced. The American People should not be forced by law, to pay for the impoverished people that trespass into America from other countries.We can aid our fellow legal workers out, by taking immigration one step towards generic “Citizens Arrest. We cannot apprehend a suspicious individual, as it could lead to legal action. But we have the opportunity to join other “Whistle blowers” to inform ICE or local police as irregularities stand out. Not speaking reasonable English is a dead give-away, specifically in factory environment and if somebody has an accident through not comprehending a warning notice.The time is ripe to contact their federal and State Representatives to insist they enact mandatory E-Verify, Secure Communities for every State, at the Senate—202-224–3121/ House—202-225–3121.
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    Fraser007
    June 13th, 2011 on 2:03 pm

    Good comment but try using paragraphs.
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  JUSTICE FORALL
  June 16th, 2011 on 4:12 am

  THIS IS PRECISELY WHY WE HAVE LAWS. LAWS ARE A WIN-WIN SITUATION. WE NOT ONLY GET GOOD PEOPLE WHO RESPECT LAW (NOT LIKE ILLEGAL ALIENS WHO SPIT ON OUR LAWS AND MOST DON’T THINK THEY ARE IMPORTANT AT ALL (I KNOW AS I HAVE INTERVIEWED THOUSANDS OF THEM) AND LAW KEEPS OUT THE CRIMINAL ELEMENT AND THE TERRORISTS AND THE PEOPLE WITH CONTAGIOUS AND DEADLY DISEASES.  THAT IS WHY WE HAVE LAWS AND THAT IS WHY PEOPLE NEED TO OBEY OUR LAWS!