Now We're Talking- ICE Arrests Farmworkers, Sparking Fears

[Geaux4it]

Let those on welfare in California pick the crops

-Geaux

 

[Tax Man]

You have no clue about welfare. And the skills to pick or maintain crops are a set no white boy knows.

 

[Geaux4it]

You have no clue about welfare. And the skills to pick or maintain crops are a set no white boy knows.

Not true... But please, enlighten us more on how Cali smells like a sewer that libs call roses

-Geaux

 

[Tax Man]

You have no clue about welfare. And the skills to pick or maintain crops are a set no white boy knows.

Not true... But please, enlighten us more on how Cali smells like a sewer that libs call roses

-Geaux

What is this Cali all the repukes keep talking about?

 

[Two Thumbs]

You have no clue about welfare. And the skills to pick or maintain crops are a set no white boy knows.

love the racism and the utter ignorance of what young white men have knowledge of.

 

[gallantwarrior]

You have no clue about welfare. And the skills to pick or maintain crops are a set no white boy knows.

Yah, but if the wetbacks can learn them, so can dumbass welfare trash

 

[tyroneweaver]

The farmer will let the crops die. White people can not pick or even weed vegetables in the field with any value. Lettuce will just go sky high in price and those low wage states will not be able to afford vegetables to eat.

The more obese the red states get, the less time those fools will be around affecting policy. There’s always a silver lining.

When the big one hits I'll give ya some groceries despite what ya said.

 

[Mr Natural]

No american should be picking crops for less than 20 bucks per hour.

With full Union benefits of course.

 

[theHawk]

Wonder how the farmer feels? He's gonna have to double the wages or even triple them to get Americans to do that job. Rightfully so.

How about all those unemployment and uneducated blacks? They could use a job.

 

[tyroneweaver]

No american should be picking crops for less than 20 bucks per hour.

how about this
if wheat is 4 bucks a bushel pay em 4 bucks an hour
If spuds are 10 dollars a sack, pay em 10 bucks an hour
tie it to the commodity price

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

The Democrats and their neo-slaves.

 

[gallantwarrior]

No american should be picking crops for less than 20 bucks per hour.

how about this
if wheat is 4 bucks a bushel pay em 4 bucks an hour
If spuds are 10 dollars a sack, pay em 10 bucks an hour
tie it to the commodity price

As long a minimum quota were applied and adhered to. Otherwise, break up Big Ag and let's get to 40 acres and a mule and let 'em grow their own, selling any surplus they may have.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

You have no clue about welfare. And the skills to pick or maintain crops are a set no white boy knows.

Are you a wetback by chance?

 

[OldLady]

Up here, just about every man, woman and child over 5 used to rake wild blueberries in August. Further north, whole families were so involved in the potato harvest that they closed school. It's backbreaking but everyone -- white everyones -- did it.

The problem is, it's about a month's worth of work. One month out of twelve. I've worked with some of the migrant population and they are constantly moving from state to state. When they finish up in New York they are headed to Florida or Washington, then Maine again It's very hard work and not a lot of money, you're constantly living in a cramped trailer or farmers' huts somewhere. So saying "get welfare folks to do it" is just a lot of silliness. They haven't got cars to move around in and most of them have kids who need to be in school. Let's try to be realistic. If guest workers from Mexico and Central America are willing to come here to work the harvests, let them come legally. Let's see ICE clamping down on the farmer where those four guys were headed to work. He was paying them under the table, wasn't he? Without employers willing to break the law, there wouldn't be any illegals here.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

We have sons and great grandsons of former cotton pickers who are well adapted with physical strength needed for hard work in the fields. Many of them are needing employment right now. We certainly don't need illegals here doing the work Americans can do.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Up here, just about every man, woman and child over 5 used to rake wild blueberries in August. Further north, whole families were so involved in the potato harvest that they closed school. It's backbreaking but everyone -- white everyones -- did it.

The problem is, it's about a month's worth of work. One month out of twelve. I've worked with some of the migrant population and they are constantly moving from state to state. When they finish up in New York they are headed to Florida or Washington, then Maine again It's very hard work and not a lot of money, you're constantly living in a cramped trailer or farmers' huts somewhere. So saying "get welfare folks to do it" is just a lot of silliness. They haven't got cars to move around in and most of them have kids who need to be in school. Let's try to be realistic. If guest workers from Mexico and Central America are willing to come here to work the harvests, let them come legally. Let's see ICE clamping down on the farmer where those four guys were headed to work. He was paying them under the table, wasn't he? Without employers willing to break the law, there wouldn't be any illegals here.

You contradict yourself.
In one breath you say the locals did the picking in the next you say migrant farm workers should.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

No american should be picking crops for less than 20 bucks per hour.

No American should be picking crops for less than the going market forces rate.

 

[gallantwarrior]

Up here, just about every man, woman and child over 5 used to rake wild blueberries in August. Further north, whole families were so involved in the potato harvest that they closed school. It's backbreaking but everyone -- white everyones -- did it.

The problem is, it's about a month's worth of work. One month out of twelve. I've worked with some of the migrant population and they are constantly moving from state to state. When they finish up in New York they are headed to Florida or Washington, then Maine again It's very hard work and not a lot of money, you're constantly living in a cramped trailer or farmers' huts somewhere. So saying "get welfare folks to do it" is just a lot of silliness. They haven't got cars to move around in and most of them have kids who need to be in school. Let's try to be realistic. If guest workers from Mexico and Central America are willing to come here to work the harvests, let them come legally. Let's see ICE clamping down on the farmer where those four guys were headed to work. He was paying them under the table, wasn't he? Without employers willing to break the law, there wouldn't be any illegals here.

Okay, then! Make a condition for DACA eligible persons to invest several years of migratory labor in order to obtain their stay here. Staying in the US should be worth a couple of years time invested in actually earning money the good, old-fashioned way...labor.
When previous waves of immigrants came here, not only were they vetted for criminal history and illnesses, they expected to have to work to establish themselves. Welfare and freebie giveaways did not exist.
Maybe we're kicking the wrong folks out? Maybe we should consider keeping those field hands and boot the blood-sucking entitlement folks to the curb they crawled out from?

 

[OldLady]

Up here, just about every man, woman and child over 5 used to rake wild blueberries in August. Further north, whole families were so involved in the potato harvest that they closed school. It's backbreaking but everyone -- white everyones -- did it.

The problem is, it's about a month's worth of work. One month out of twelve. I've worked with some of the migrant population and they are constantly moving from state to state. When they finish up in New York they are headed to Florida or Washington, then Maine again It's very hard work and not a lot of money, you're constantly living in a cramped trailer or farmers' huts somewhere. So saying "get welfare folks to do it" is just a lot of silliness. They haven't got cars to move around in and most of them have kids who need to be in school. Let's try to be realistic. If guest workers from Mexico and Central America are willing to come here to work the harvests, let them come legally. Let's see ICE clamping down on the farmer where those four guys were headed to work. He was paying them under the table, wasn't he? Without employers willing to break the law, there wouldn't be any illegals here.

You contradict yourself.
In one breath you say the locals did the picking in the next you say migrant farm workers should.

My point was in response to the guy who said whites can't do the work. They can, but they need to be raised to it. Kids used to start as soon as they could swing a rake. They earned their school clothes with the money. Now they can't rake due to child labor laws unless it's their own family's land. But not to worry--most berries and most potatoes are being harvested mechanically now.

 

[OldLady]

Up here, just about every man, woman and child over 5 used to rake wild blueberries in August. Further north, whole families were so involved in the potato harvest that they closed school. It's backbreaking but everyone -- white everyones -- did it.

The problem is, it's about a month's worth of work. One month out of twelve. I've worked with some of the migrant population and they are constantly moving from state to state. When they finish up in New York they are headed to Florida or Washington, then Maine again It's very hard work and not a lot of money, you're constantly living in a cramped trailer or farmers' huts somewhere. So saying "get welfare folks to do it" is just a lot of silliness. They haven't got cars to move around in and most of them have kids who need to be in school. Let's try to be realistic. If guest workers from Mexico and Central America are willing to come here to work the harvests, let them come legally. Let's see ICE clamping down on the farmer where those four guys were headed to work. He was paying them under the table, wasn't he? Without employers willing to break the law, there wouldn't be any illegals here.

Okay, then! Make a condition for DACA eligible persons to invest several years of migratory labor in order to obtain their stay here. Staying in the US should be worth a couple of years time invested in actually earning money the good, old-fashioned way...labor.
When previous waves of immigrants came here, not only were they vetted for criminal history and illnesses, they expected to have to work to establish themselves. Welfare and freebie giveaways did not exist.
Maybe we're kicking the wrong folks out? Maybe we should consider keeping those field hands and boot the blood-sucking entitlement folks to the curb they crawled out from?

Why should they have to work migrant field labor? Just because they speak Spanish?