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Feinstein: We Can’t Increase Immigration Enforcement Because No One Will Pick Our Fruit
Posted on 8/6/17 at 11:54 pm
Posted on 8/6/17 at 11:54 pm
Equals = We can’t abolish slavery, who will pick our cotton.
How offensive is that statement?
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How offensive is that statement?
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California Sen. Dianne Feinstein warned that President Donald Trump’s immigration plan would severely cripple the agriculture industry in a Wednesday evening interview.
“We’re the largest agricultural producer in America It’s a $50 billion industry. We employ tens of thousands of agricultural workers,” The Democratic senator said on CNN. “They are among a class that this would be prohibited. It would cripple agriculture if they didn’t have the people coming in to do this work,”
She went on to argue that Americans just aren’t interested in working in 100-degree temperatures. “So you would have a severe crippling of the largest ag industry in America, “she concluded.
The Trump administration worked with Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of Georgia to produce a bill that could halve the number of people legally accepted into the country over the next ten years, according to The Hill.
Feinstein isn’t the first senator to use that same line of attack against the bill known as the RAISE Act. GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham announced he opposed the act due to its potential effects on agriculture in his home state.
“South Carolina’s number one industry is agriculture and tourism is number two,” the senator said in an official statement. “If this proposal were to become law, it would be devastating to our state’s economy which relies on this immigrant workforce.”
Posted on 8/6/17 at 11:55 pm to Rakim
The fruit will be picked, but it will be picked by more expensive labor.
More expensive labor=higher prices
More expensive labor=higher prices
Posted on 8/7/17 at 12:01 am to Rakim
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She went on to argue that Americans just aren’t interested in working in 100-degree temperatures.
Stop paying them more for doing nothing and they will lower their standards.
They will benefit in the long run and so will the country
This post was edited on 8/7/17 at 12:03 am
Posted on 8/7/17 at 12:05 am to Rakim
I can do without all the fruit and Mexicans
Posted on 8/7/17 at 12:05 am to Rakim
Illegal immigrants are poor, unintelligent, unskilled, marginally-contributing members of society who provide nothing but cheap labor. I know because the democrats have told us this for years. They're basically slaves who live in squalor, 20 people to a 2-room single-wide trailer.
Then they tell us we're racist for not wanting to perpetuate this.
Then they tell us we're racist for not wanting to perpetuate this.
This post was edited on 8/7/17 at 12:06 am
Posted on 8/7/17 at 12:09 am to Lsuchs
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Stop paying them more for doing nothing
Can't be said enough. Start with the federal government (IRS, SSA, VA, etc.) remove the bureaucracy and work your way down from there.
My wife works for the IRS and I've heard horror stories about how poor their new hiring standards there are and how mismanaged it is.
This post was edited on 8/7/17 at 12:10 am
Posted on 8/7/17 at 12:20 am to Devil_doge
Well it would create more jobs for Americans. More winning!!! MAGA
Posted on 8/7/17 at 12:25 am to Rakim
They want to let in all the illegals then make the farmers pay them all $20/hr
Posted on 8/7/17 at 12:25 am to Rakim
The Dems are good at pulling the race card against everyone but themselves.
Posted on 8/7/17 at 1:01 am to Rakim
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She went on to argue that Americans just aren’t interested in working in 100-degree temperatures.
She'd be surprised at what kinds of work hungry people are willing to do.
Posted on 8/7/17 at 1:13 am to Rakim
quote:
Equals = We can’t abolish slavery, who will pick our cotton.
Posted on 8/7/17 at 1:18 am to airfernando
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I can do without all the fruit and Mexicans
Actually I'd prefer the Mexicans. If we can just figure out a way to get the lazy Americans out of here then that would be ideal.
Posted on 8/7/17 at 1:24 am to Pinecone Repair
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She'd be surprised at what kinds of work hungry people are willing to do
I doubt she knows anything about real work or being hungry.
Posted on 8/7/17 at 1:32 am to Rakim
White people ain't gonna pick fruit and neither will black people. Let's just be real. You could offer $30 an hour with free insurance and you would have a hard time filling those jobs with Americans.
Posted on 8/7/17 at 1:36 am to AUstar
Fun Fact: only ~4% of illegals immigrants work in agriculture
Posted on 8/7/17 at 1:43 am to Rakim
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Automation
Higher prices, automation, and export shrinkage.
Posted on 8/7/17 at 2:02 am to Rakim
Work visas work visas work visas
There should be no reason they can't get a fricking work visa and pay taxes like everyone else.
There should be no reason they can't get a fricking work visa and pay taxes like everyone else.
Posted on 8/7/17 at 2:05 am to Rakim
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Fun Fact: only ~4% of illegals immigrants work in agriculture
Oops
Posted on 8/7/17 at 3:44 am to GeauxLSUGeaux
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There should be no reason they can't get a fricking work visa and pay taxes like everyone else.
This was fairly common 10 years ago. Mexicans would come over on a temporary work visa and work the fields, following the harvest seasons across the west. Come November they return home. Rinse and repeat each spring.
I guess unenforced immigration laws encouraged them to just stay. And government handouts.
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