(01-30-2018 11:34 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(01-30-2018 11:25 AM)Crebman Wrote:  

(01-30-2018 01:08 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(01-29-2018 09:23 PM)bullet Wrote:  To borrow a theme from the conference realignment board, you admit new members who are better than the average and provide benefit to your current citizens. You don't add at the bottom of the group.

The owners of fruit and vegetable farms and chicken processing plants would disagree.


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Well, I agree that we need farm workers, but according to the link, only about 4 percent of illegals are doing farm work....

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/43...s-debunked

From the article:

Most illegals do not work in agriculture — only about 4 percent of the illegal-immigrant population is employed in farming. In no state is farming the predominant occupation of illegal immigrants; even in places such as California, where labor-intensive fruit-and-vegetable farming attracts a relatively large illegal workforce, the main occupations of illegals are in hospitality (restaurants and hotels), services, and transportation.

Those people provide benefit to US citizens as that is about the only job illegals do that is impossible to get enough Americans to do. And that can be handled through seasonal programs.

Americans were doing those agricultural jobs before the illegals came in and took them. I know because I was one of those Americans doing the job when I would assist a family friend with seasonal work. We never had a problem with staffing either. A large farm here was fined $1 million a few years back and has since hired only Americans or legal immigrants and they don't have any trouble filling positions.

Now if you had said that Americans will not do the job for slave wages like illegals I would agree, but to say Americans will not do those jobs is patently false.