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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Jun 25 2010 : 06:43:05 AM
I am not starting a debate but some of you may be interested in reading "Immigrant farm workers' challenge: Take our jobs" on my blog. This article by the AP appeared on Yahoo News today. I reposted it on my blog a long with just a little of my own commentary. I am curious farmgirls - what are your thoughts? Feel free to post a comment on my blog. And remember this isnt a debate!
http://www.eggsandherbs.com/?p=805
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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Jun 26 2010 : 12:38:43 AM
I am mexican, however, a 4th generation american. My great uncle was american, and (only my fathers age, dad's father was of the older kids, so his uncle is his same age), even though he was american at the time the only job he could get was work like that, and he said the police used to come and beat them up! They would beat him up because he didn't have a "green card"! But, he was a american, and american's don't have green cards!
Great grandma washed dishes in a restaurant in the 1980's, along with her mentally challenged daughter and combined they made 50 cents a hour! Great grandma wasn't a citizen. :(
You are so right, many "american's" think these jobs are beneath them, I've never heard any one not getting a migrant job they applied for because some mexican already had it! lol
My sister is a lawyer, she pretty much said our economy would go down the drain with out the immigrant workers. Her solution, have a different min wage for immigrants-lower then citizens, and then they could still be counted and taxed. She explains her solution better then me, but it sounded good to me.
What I say? At least when you are paying a immigrant here, the great majority of that money goes right back into our economy-they buy food, toys, clothes, etc all right here. What about all the jobs we are farming our over seas, that's what I am worrying about destroying our economy and taking over our jobs. And that money we never see back into our own economy, it goes into the country they are living at. So that seems like a bigger worry to me then immigrant workers.
Just my two cents. ;)
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| laurentany |
Posted - Jun 25 2010 : 7:15:07 PM
I think this is a great challenge! So much of what you said is true, and I'll bet Mr. Rodriguez is right on... probably not one "legal" american citizen woudl even dream of taking a jon like that, that perhaps is "beneath" them!
very interesting!
Thanks for sharing..
Laurie
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| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Jun 25 2010 : 4:36:33 PM
I commented too Julie - thanks for mentioning the article!!
Amy Grace
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Jun 25 2010 : 3:46:13 PM
Wonderful Jonni! You had some great things to say!
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Jun 25 2010 : 07:08:01 AM
I wrote you a novella, Julie :)
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