Now tell me something I don’t know. ;)
I was merely conveying an anecdote. The fact remains, unemployment was pushing 20% in my parish. Despite that fact, farmers had to import immigrant labor to harvest because the lazies are being paid by the government to hang on the corner and drink 40s. Good paying work is available at harvest. No matter. It’s still “work” and I have seen with my own eyes that certain segments of the population just are NOT going to do it. They already have a source of income that does not require work.
This essay is about how those on the dole affect illegal immigration. My little anecdote is my experience with that first hand. That said, I have no evidence that any of these migrants were not here illegally. That’s not really the point, though. They point is about WHY they come.
In communities like where I’m from, farm owners are not going to stand idly by and let farms that have been in families for generations go unharvested because the local welfare recipients don’t want to work. In their vernacular, “It’ll mess up their check.”
1. Eliminate the minimum wage.
2. Eliminate all social services (even emergency medical) for anyone who is not in the country legally and able to prove it.
3. Eliminate all social services except education and emergency medical for anyone who is here legally but not a US citizen.
4. Institute and enforce a ban on knowingly hiring an illegal alien. A mandatory $5,000 fine, and 1 year in jail per offense.
Two months after these steps are adopted, you won’t have 1,000 illegal aliens in the whole country. they will deport themselves.