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To: craig crawford who wrote (132240)10/1/2001 2:12:36 PM
From: Alomex  Read Replies (2) of 164684
 
hold on there. i want you to try to tell me that this country thrives on illegal immigration.

It provides the cheap source of labor needed so that you can keep eating produce from the fields at a reasonable cost. Back in the 80s a couple of senators in a typical grand-standing manner tightened the borders with Mexico. Within a year farmers in California were facing bankruptcy.

Quietly the Congress changed the provisions and everything went back to normal.

Of course the proper thing to do would be to create a class of immigrant called farm worker with lower wages restricted to certain occupations, but then people like Pat and Craig jump and say: these immigrants are stealing our jobs, as if Fat Pat would ever be on his knees twelve hours a day picking broccoli.
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