Let the market dictate what people are willing to pay for labor and for the fruit. That model worked fine until Kennedy, Clinton and Bushes let the floodgates stay open.
I suggest that you get out the midwest and move to the border states to get an "appreciation of the situation".
P.S. If we eliminate all the farm subsidies, maybe the demand for farm laborers would decrease. Do you support the elimination of this corporate welfare, too?
i live in a border state and i think you're right mad.
i have done migrant farm work. americans are too worried about their manicures. they wouldn't do this crap if you paid them $20 an hour. i've done it. it's balls hard. i might do it again if you paid me $20 but i'm crazy.
It is one reason, yes. That is part of the "opportunity". Any why is the medical system price-gouging as you say? Maybe it's because of so many free services they obligated to pay. These free health services, which you are so denying and igorant of, are a FACT. The illegals do not need insurance, because they just show up at the emergency hospitals and clinics where by law they must be helped.
oh yes the poor doctors who might starve because occasionally the hospital has to provide a 10 cent tylenol or a 50 cent saline iv drip to some bastard immigrant who can't pay the 3000 dollars they charge for an er visit. gimme a break.
It's not just "potential", it is reality. Fraud is already occurring with fake records of all sorts. And if that is not enough, there is an entry-level method to getting started in America.
Do you know what a "Matricula" card is?
It is a Mexican invention of an ID card for illegals in America to circumvent the IDs cards (like drivers license) of America. The Hispanic lobbyists have done a good job of getting local governments to increasingly accept these cards for services.
yes the mexicans are conspiring to break us. it's not our war spending that's making us poor, it's the mexicans. WAR ON MEXICO!
Consider the long term effects. If you grant this amnesty program, the invasion will not stop and actually even more will come. This will create an overabundance of a poverty class with a different language and culture that will inevitably lead to more problems in the future.
bush's economic policies are doing enough of that with plain old americans. not to mention what we're all doing to the black ghettos. we already have a growing poverty class and most of them don't speak proper english anyways. and the way you talk, we can't possibly go much further, because there's only about 3 mexicans still in mexico anyways. you want long term effects? how about we invest in the infrastructure of mexico so it's not such a godawful hellhole they want to escape so badly. that will give REAL long term effects. but noooo we can't give our almighty dollar to someone else. we have to pay for poor stupid upper class americans' tax cuts so they can bitch about having to hear someone speaking in a language they can't understand.
That builds THEIR country?? Throw money at the problem?
If that is not your solution, then offer one.
that's my solution. and it seems smarter than yours. oh sure. we could lock them out. hell. we should shoot every hispanic we see because they might be illegal. how about all the jews that are sending money back to israel? can we shoot them too? and the asians sending money back to the children they can't afford to bring over? and the africans who left their mothers in squallor so they could hope to build something they could bring them to?
but this is not going to make it better. they'll beat down every wall you put up for them until you make every developing country liveable. that's the problem here. americans are killing themselves in their excess while most of the world is starving to death. in developing countries, they're making war over false distinctions in society so that they can maintain enough resources for one side or the other. rich people in america get aids or tb and it all but goes away. poor people get it in africa or asia or wherever and they drop like flies. and we're worried about someone telling our big pharmaceutical companies that they have to give away their product and in so doing lose their profits and omg maybe they will only have 50 billion instead of 100 billion to share with their fatcat stockholders.
60% of americans are overweight. i think it was 30% that are obese. we have way too much money and way too much food and all we do is bitch about who is coming in to our country to steal our tax dollars to feed their starving families. unbelievable.
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