Last night on the news, they stated that Michigan was going to be to SEEKING OUT migrant workers to do this work.
But our unemployment rate is over 7%!!! What the heck???!!!
To: mombyprofession
Who is going to do the work illegals don’t want?
To: mombyprofession
Unemployment checks beat picking crops?
3 posted on
05/18/2007 5:46:44 PM PDT by
PA-RIVER
To: mombyprofession
It’s the same way here. You can’t find locals to work in the tobacco or hay fields. All of our farmers hire migrants. Some hire legals and some hire illegals. Legals are fine; illegals are not. I’m all for them working our farms if they are documented but that is the only way.
To: mombyprofession
"What they're looking for is how they are treated," said the office's Olivia Alverado. "Not so much what the wages are. Minimum wage has gone up and people were pretty happy with that minimum wage." BS-ometer going off.
5 posted on
05/18/2007 5:58:44 PM PDT by
Thebaddog
(All dogs are good. Cats are too.)
To: mombyprofession
It’s a matter of pride. Our entitlement culture has breed people who view these jobs as beneath them. Why work in the fields if you can sit home and collect a check? As far as migrant workers (and illegals) they are EVERYWHERE in West Michigan, particularly on the lakeshore.
7 posted on
05/18/2007 6:36:41 PM PDT by
rintense
(Rudy is nothing more than a Dem with an R behind his name. I'm 4 Thompson!)
To: mombyprofession
I bet their prisons are bursting at the seams.
Therefore...
chain gangs.
9 posted on
05/18/2007 7:17:21 PM PDT by
SpaceBar
To: mombyprofession
C’mon over to Chicago. We’ve got a boatload.
12 posted on
05/19/2007 5:31:05 AM PDT by
toddlintown
(Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
To: mombyprofession
Pay enough money and you won’t need to hire illegal aliens.
13 posted on
05/19/2007 5:34:53 AM PDT by
savedbygrace
(SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
Either transportation costs (gasoline around $3.60 a gallon) or lodging costs, as well as the transitory nature of farm labor (big demand at fitting/planting, big demand at harvest, little in between) means this will continue to be a problem.
18 posted on
05/26/2007 8:19:33 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated May 26, 2007.)
To: mombyprofession
Let’s take all the white-collar automotive engineers who were laid off from Ford and make them pick cherries.
19 posted on
05/26/2007 8:21:52 PM PDT by
Alouette
(It is reminiscent of the world-famous Jewish conspiracy, now extended to also include Jews.)
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