Do you guys feel good about this ,the reporter says to ICE agents as…

[bunnydrops]

When I was in High School, I had to work in the fields during the summer picking strawberries, green beans, and digging flower bulbs. The kids were put in one field and the migrants in another. The migrants would be whole families. They were very hard workers, whereas we kids would be in a strawberry fight as soon as no one was looking. Picking strawberries is not fun. You push a little wheelbarrow between the rows in the mud on your knees. The migrants were all "wet backs", the term for illegal aliens at the time. We all knew it, it was just a fact of life back then. After the harvest, they would move on to harvest the pears, apples, melons, or whatever work they could find. Then they would go back to Mexico.

I am sure that is the way many of the illegal immigrants still work; they don't count the number of people who sneak back out of the country. The H-2a system is flawed. Harvesters do not work for just one employer;  they work for many, and go to where and when the next harvest takes place.

I don't think you are going to find enough kids (nowadays, any) to fill the void.

[bunnydrops]

17 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Enlighten yourself to where the illegal immigrants go, and immigrants doing the picking, isn't exactly cheap.

 

Two tidbits paraphrased from linked article below ...

 

... “Only 1% of alien workers in the entire country work in agriculture. The top destination for illegal aliens is large cities like New York, Los Angeles and small industrial towns, of course, all across the heartland. None of those illegal aliens are doing farm work,” Miller says." ...

 

... “H-2A is very expensive to use. The minimum wage for H-2A is like $3 or $4 higher than our state. Minimum wage and our state minimum wage are $16. And the H-2A minimum wage is over 19. Think about that. The guest workers have to be paid more,” he adds

With required housing and food, Del Bosque says it’s becoming too expensive to even utilize H-2A in the U.S. today." ...

 

source: https://www.agweb.com/news/policy/politics/true-cost-what-farmers-argue-broken-immigration-system-u-s?fbclid=IwY2xjawKTtDFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFFM1lWaTh6Q3NHNUpBRzVXAR7x164B39fPwMkYybBAq_jxOt8Qppi7CvES6fD-8b3N8GTAWGWm1iqo8w_OXw_aem_gImZcePO3BahHHR0Ckqalw

I often wonder where they get those figures. It's not like people who hire illegal aliens are reporting to the government.

[SLOWHAND225]

On 5/12/2025 at 6:06 PM, riclag said:

Your thoughts on coming in and going out of the illegal migrants.

“Do you guys feel good about this ,like are you happy you’re taken family’s apart.

 

Story based on a local Fox News affiliate.

This is exactly what I voted for and expected. They don't belong here and should all be sent home. The fact that they came to the USA and managed to drop some crotch fruit is irrelevant.

[phetphet]

Nothing wrong with getting illegals out. I just don't like the way Trump and his cronies are going about it.

Sure. send them back to their own countries, and if criminals, convict and deport them. But just grabbing people off the street and sending them to virtual concentration camps in a third country without due process and likely for life is wrong.

 

 

[Hanaguma]

5 hours ago, bunnydrops said:

When I was in High School, I had to work in the fields during the summer picking strawberries, green beans, and digging flower bulbs. The kids were put in one field and the migrants in another. The migrants would be whole families. They were very hard workers, whereas we kids would be in a strawberry fight as soon as no one was looking. Picking strawberries is not fun. You push a little wheelbarrow between the rows in the mud on your knees. The migrants were all "wet backs", the term for illegal aliens at the time. We all knew it, it was just a fact of life back then. After the harvest, they would move on to harvest the pears, apples, melons, or whatever work they could find. Then they would go back to Mexico.

I am sure that is the way many of the illegal immigrants still work; they don't count the number of people who sneak back out of the country. The H-2a system is flawed. Harvesters do not work for just one employer;  they work for many, and go to where and when the next harvest takes place.

I don't think you are going to find enough kids (nowadays, any) to fill the void.

So you are OK with keeping a permanent underclass of "wet backs" to pick your crops and clean your toilets? That is an incredibly bigoted and privileged attitude.  "We need brown people to do the scut work for us". 

You ignore the fact that most ag workers in the US are NOT illegal immigrants. There is no industry or job category that is.  

[unblocktheplanet]

On 5/12/2025 at 9:52 PM, thesetat said:

I do not think you would be crying over the illegal Burmy or Cambodians as immigration is arresting them and sending them back to their countries. 

Oh, yes I would. They're just here to support their families at home, same as Hispanics in America. In fact, they keep Thailand running, make almost nothing & are at constant risk of immigration jail & eventual deportation. You must be listening to Leon telling us empathy is the problem with society.

[unblocktheplanet]

On 5/16/2025 at 12:12 PM, lordgrinz said:

 

So, lets just allow breaking the law to fit ones agenda? I think they call that anarchy. 

Don't like eating, do ya? I'd take anarchy over a missed dinner...

[riclag]

2 hours ago, Hanaguma said:

So you are OK with keeping a permanent underclass of "wet backs" to pick your crops and clean your toilets? That is an incredibly bigoted and privileged attitude.  "We need brown people to do the scut work for us". 

You ignore the fact that most ag workers in the US are NOT illegal immigrants. There is no industry or job category that is.  

 

"We need brown people to do the scut work for us“. 

 

Its been going on for centuries, The Slave owner mentality ! This is what dem democracy looked like back  in the 

days when  they succeeded from the union and when they created the KKK .

Much much out of wack now, is   the need  to save the oppressed of the world while ignoring their criminal activities!