Republican immigration policy is working

[targus]

English is your second language?

Nope...

But I understand "billwald speak" well enough to translate your nonsense.

 

[billwald]

>But I understand "billwald speak" well enough to translate your nonsense.

I don't expect you to. I'll ignore you if you ignore me. No need to respond to this post. But I suspect you will have to have the last word.

 

[Borneol]

It's different than poultry, but similar. Recall this article on Steve Sailors sight about fruit pickers and a reported shortage of illegal workers needed. Seems the farmers are doing well. THey had a record profit. Farmers want cheap labor. I think too I've read of our generous welfare programs keeps citizens from working in the fields. Why pick fruit or work in chicken plants when you can receive a check from the government?

"It's not even autumn, but ..."

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/06/its-not-even-autumn-but.html

From his article:

For years, going back at least to October 2006, every fall we read about the latest agricultural crisis caused by insufficient illegal infiltrator peasants. One harvest time, it's pears rotting in the field, the next it's kumquats. Just fill in the blanks on the press release. Each one-time-only outsized crop caused by fluke weather justifies a permanent change in the American population.

But last year, American farmowners enjoyed their most profitable year in history. So, this year, they aren't even waiting for fall to start agitating for lower wage workers. From Bloomberg News in the San Francisco Chronicle:
Farmers scrambling to find harvest labor