As for the farmers in California - why don't they call up Arnie and have him send down some inmates to pick their crops? Might as well put them to good use. Or go downtown and round up a bus load of homeless people to work for a few days. We do have resources here in this country to deal with this. It's pretty sad that some industries such as that have to depend on breaking the law themselves in order to survive. If they absolutely need transcient immigrant labor (which I don't believe is the only source of a work force) then there really needs to be some legal mechanism set up to allow these people to come in and pick the crops and then go home. "All we will call them will be deportees." We've backed ourselves into a corner by enacting laws that can't be enforced. And it's a very complex issue. Here in the Metro Denver area we don't have the agricultural card in play. The jobs these people are being paid under the table for could be done by legal residents. It's the employers who need to be accountable for creating this sub-economic work force. Employers who use undocumented laborers should be fined big money so it hurts them to do it. Put some teeth in our laws. As for the illegals themselves - rope 'em, brand 'em, fine 'em for breaking the law and then register them and make them pay taxes. Get the word out to their homeys back in Mexico that it ain't all milk and honey here, but if they do come here they need to do it legally. Grrrr....
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