progressive hunter
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honestly thats to much for the ones that just want a better life,,
the ones intent on taking advantage or cause harm I can agree to a point,,
Illegals and the Scream that they are Hurting America.
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the ones intent on taking advantage or cause harm I can agree to a point,,
Stryder50
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So Chairman Mao, or is it Pol Pot?
How you plan to make this culture change?
Especially when the Left~Marxist~Regressives already have one just the opposite in process?
progressive hunter
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actually its had a back fire effect,,
from what I get from the contractors I use to work with an american is asking 25-35 and hr to start while the illegal crews are doing jobs for fractions of the cost,,
that means the legal guy cant compete and cant pay whats being asked,,
progressive hunter
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well first there has to be talk to create a desire for it and not childish name calling and dumbass comments,,,
so do you want to have a rational discussion or just show what a prick you are???
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This unimposing building, which serves as the headquarters of the North Carolina Growers Association, is the nation’s largest distribution point for Third World farm labor. Each year the warehouse receives and parcels out more than 10,000 Mexican men to farmers who need hands to pick tobacco, dig sweet potatoes, or harvest Christmas trees. Unlike other migrant workers, however, the men are not free to sell their labor to growers who offer the best wages and the fairest conditions. They have been imported by Stan Eury, a businessman who runs the association, under an obscure federal program known as H-2A. The program allows Eury to determine where Madrigal and the other “guestworkers” will live and work throughout the growing season. Members of Eury’s association pay him $498 a head — nearly $5 million a year — for the wage laborers, who are then often forced to work as many hours as required, under degrading and sometimes dangerous conditions. Those who fall sick or complain about unfair treatment risk getting deported. A separate company run by Eury imports 4,000 more workers in 20 states.
Launched after World War II and fine-tuned during the 1980s, the H-2A program was designed to allow farmers to temporarily employ foreign workers during periods of labor shortage. In reality, farmers are increasingly using H-2A to permanently replace American workers with a captive labor force. With little official oversight, growers simply turn away domestic workers, or offer wages so low that flipping burgers becomes more appealing. In effect, H-2A has turned NAFTA inside out: Since U.S. farms can’t go to the Third World, the federal government allows agribusiness to bring the Third World to U.S. farms. Some 42,000 workers on H-2A visas — mainly from Mexico, Jamaica, and Peru — now harvest tobacco in Virginia, clip onions in Georgia, pick apples in New England, cut sugarcane in Arkansas and Louisiana, herd sheep in Idaho and Nevada, and operate combines throughout the Midwest. A related program called H-1B allows employers to import 195,000 skilled workers a year, bringing computer programmers to Silicon Valley and other high-tech hot spots.
Although the federal government oversees wages and working conditions, farmers often mistreat H-2A workers without fear of being penalized. A six-month investigation of the program by Mother Jones reveals widespread complaints that growers have threatened workers at gunpoint, refused them water in the fields, housed them in crumbling, rat-infested buildings where sewage bubbles up through the drains, and denied them medical care after exposing them to pesticides. Farmers control their visitors, their mail, even their weekly shopping trips. A study by the U.S. General Accounting Office notes that H-2A workers, knowing they can be deported at any time, “are unlikely to complain about worker protection violations, fearing they will lose their jobs or will not be hired in the future.” Workers say they have adopted several unwritten rules: Don’t gripe about wages and working conditions. Don’t seek the benefits you’re entitled to. Don’t make noise, even when your health is in jeopardy. “What you see, you must remain silent,” says a Jamaican H-2A worker assigned to a Massachusetts vegetable farm. “What you hear, remain silent.”
At the warehouse in Vass, Madrigal remains silent during an orientation for newcomers. Each time another shipment of men arrives, one of Stan Eury’s employees appears on the second-floor balcony, like a Mexican padrone, to welcome them in Spanish — and to warn them not to talk with farmworker advocates. “When the attorneys from Legal Services show up, watch out,” says Jay Hill of the Growers Association. “They want to take your job away from you.” Instead, Hill urges the men to call the association if they have concerns. “Your problem is my problem,” he says. “I can’t rest until the problems are solved.”
But after two seasons in the fields, experience has taught Madrigal not to trust his concerns to anyone with the H-2A program. “If I talk to the boss and say we’re in need of something, he could turn against me and fire me,” he says. Like his fellow workers, Madrigal has traveled thousands of miles to earn money for his family back home, and he’s not about to jeopardize his job by speaking up, even if things get bad. When the orientation ends, he boards another bus, this time bound for the farm that has purchased his labor for the next seven months. “They say it’s the Mexican’s dream to be here,” he says privately. “But many times it isn’t true. There’s a lot of suffering here.”
In theory, Madrigal and his co-workers are being brought to the United States because there’s no one else to do the job. Before receiving H-2A workers, farmers must advertise for American workers both locally and nationally, and then receive certification from the U.S. Department of Labor that there’s a scarcity of available labor. Even after guestworkers arrive, employers must hire any qualified, legal U.S. resident who applies for a job during the first half of the growing season.
Although the process is designed to ensure American workers get first crack at any jobs, only a handful wind up being hired. According to growers, that’s because few apply. “The unemployment rate is at a 30-year low,” says Stan Eury. “It doesn’t take an analyst to show you there’s a labor shortage. Anyone who says there’s not is an absolute idiot.” Farmwork, he adds, “operates at the bottom rung of the job ladder, and in a time of strong employment, those bottom rungs are the first vacated.”
In fact, study after study of the H-2A program concludes that there’s actually a surplus of agricultural labor, not a shortage. “Unemployment and underemployment are endemic among farmworkers,” says one Labor Department report. “Even at the seasonal peak in September, one-third of farmworkers are still not working in U.S. agriculture.” In studies and congressional testimony about the program, the General Accounting Office also dismisses the idea of a labor shortage. “Agricultural employers in most of the United States have had adequate supplies of labor for many years and continue to do so,” the GAO reports.
The agency acknowledges that some regions do experience local shortages, but notes that those might be alleviated “with fairly modest wage increases.” Instead, H-2A enables farmers — from small operators to corporate giants employing more than 600 workers — to effectively circumvent the free market, paying guestworkers as little as $6.39 an hour rather than raising hourly wages to attract U.S. workers. “A lot of farmers say, ‘I advertised for 300 jobs and no one applied,'” says Thom Myers, a farmworker advocate in Raleigh, North Carolina. “But what about the guy who runs a hardware store who has the same argument? What about the guy who runs a restaurant? If this was any other industry, the government would say, ‘Hey, raise your pay until the supply and demand curves cross.'”
Rather than pay market wages, H-2A growers have instead developed a litany of schemes to ward off domestic workers. In Idaho, the Snake River Farmer’s Association urged its members to write backbreaking job descriptions to discourage Americans from applying. “Irrigators or pipe movers is a great job description because no one wants to move pipe,” explains an association handout. Farmers in other states have turned away U.S. residents for being a few minutes late for interviews, or for not knowing the fine points of federal labor law. In North Carolina, the Growers Association says it hires domestic workers after a simple five-minute phone interview — but state officials describe the process as intentionally inefficient and even hostile. “They go out of their way to discourage local workers from seeking employment,” Lee Albritton, a former job-service employee, wrote in a memo to his supervisors. In 1999, the state found jobs on non-H-2A farms for 12,700 domestic workers. By contrast, on H-2A farms, the state found jobs for only seven workers.
To further discourage U.S. workers, growers often refuse to provide migrant crews the same kind of transportation they offer H-2A workers. “Farmers know that unless there’s travel money involved, no large number of domestic workers will get to the job site,” says Greg Schell, an attorney at Florida’s Migrant Farmworker Justice Project. “If they send a bus to the Rio Grande Valley or Belle Glade, Florida, they can get thousands of experienced farmworkers. But without a bus, the job may as well be on Mars.”
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Stryder50
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The USA was never meant to be a one off~one of a kind form of government and society. Rather we were meant to be an example to the rest of the world, that they could follow, copy in their own way.
I can't fault people on this planet wanting a better life, but when they migrate hundreds to thousands of miles to enter illegally, then something is wrong with them and those whom aided their transit.
Looking at the costs, social disruptions, and other negatives this invasion of illegals is causing suggests to me that we need an American Foreign Legion we can put these illegals into and send them back to their homelands to do some reforming of government, economy, and society there. Export "America" to them rather than import "them" here.
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Their work in hotels is also going. Japan doesn't have illegals. They are exporting these.
progressive hunter
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where did you come up with that shit???
the country was created so people could be free from past tyranny,,
and what does any of this have to do with what I said??
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Their work in hotels is also going. Japan doesn't have illegals. They are exporting these.
EvilCat Breath
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Yeah. Selling drugs is hard work.
progressive hunter
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not talking about those people,,
Stryder50
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The USA was never meant to be a one off~one of a kind form of government and society. Rather we were meant to be an example to the rest of the world, that they could follow, copy in their own way.
I can't fault people on this planet wanting a better life, but when they migrate hundreds to thousands of miles to enter illegally, then something is wrong with them and those whom aided their transit.
Looking at the costs, social disruptions, and other negatives this invasion of illegals is causing suggests to me that we need an American Foreign Legion we can put these illegals into and send them back to their homelands to do some reforming of government, economy, and society there. Export "America" to them rather than import "them" here.
You are the fount of dumbass comments!
I'm offering you a chance to present a solid and detail plan, not crack pipe blue sky ramblings.
You are the first to go to hostile so check your mirror for where the prick lies.
As I was saying ~ suggesting, how about the nuts and bolts solution, not some dreamy ramblings about "create a desire". If you can't show a detail plan, step by step, to make your "great leap forward" than there is nothing to discuss with you.
progressive hunter
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youre so fucking dumb you didnt realize I was doing it by talking about it,,,
but you wanted to talk about moa and pol pot,,
Stryder50
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Try reading the Federalist Papers, the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and early USA history.
That "past tyranny" had form and substance that impacted economics of daily lives, personal freedoms and liberties, and that revolution was the ultimate solution sought. A new form of government was created, but it wasn't just an "American" thing, it was something others could do and have.
We have the illegal immigrant crisis/problem because other countries have defective government and economies, often due to tyranny, and the more effective and long term solution is to change conditions there, not jam our society and economy with the castoffs of those other nations.
That is, unless someone wants to use this open borders and invasion hordes to destroy our country, which is what it's beginning to look like.
progressive hunter
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all that doesnt mean this country was created to be a beacon/example to other countries,,
Stryder50
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Then you need a remedial course in basic writing skills and spelling.
progressive hunter
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my apologies for not meeting you high standards,,
so are you going to discuss the topic or continue with personal attacks??
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Yes you are. You just don't know it yet.
progressive hunter
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great,,
another fucking mind reader,,
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EXCERPT:
"
The past few days when I've been at that window upstairs, I've thought a bit of the shining "city upon a hill." The phrase comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What he imagined was important, because he was an early Pilgrim - an early "Freedom Man." He journeyed here on what today we'd call a little wooden boat, and, like the other pilgrims, he was looking for a home that would be free.
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind, it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind swept, God blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace - a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors, and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.
That's how I saw it, and see it still. How Stands the City?
And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure and happier than it was eight years ago. But more than that: after 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm.
And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the Pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.
...
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Transcript of Reagan's Farewell Address to American People
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