[AngelesCrestHighway]

"There's a ton of illegals here," he says. "People bring in checks with aliases that they've been given. Or they may have papers but work under a different name so they don't lose their unemployment" from a previous job."

Sorry! No sympathy here. Collecting three or four unemployment checks under different names?....Just a taxpayer rip off to me!....

[BipolarBob]

Obamas fault!!

I get to do that for four years.

[jiggyboy]

I make no apologies to the L.A. Times for not caring about illegals being exploited in the U.S. or for buying grapes for two bucks a pound or less. Go back to Mexico.

[NRA1995]

No sympathy here either....let ‘em all go back home

[laotzu]

Just a taxpayer rip off to me!....

Not being able to afford to house, clothe, feed, educate, employ, and provide health coverage for everyone in the solar system makes you a RACIST!!

[ArrogantBustard]

Collecting three or four unemployment checks under different names?

Flog them and throw them over the border.

Bastards.

Honest legal immigrants are welcome.

These scum are not.

[mak5]

Representatives from government agencies are on hand to educate farmworkers on their legal rights. Tables are stacked with literature on workplace discrimination, wage and overtime laws, sexual harassment and pesticide danger. But the crowd gravitates to a table where the Mexican Consulate is giving away children's books, novels and school textbooks.

Government agencies are working with not only illegal aliens, but those who are committing unemployment fraud? What isn't wrong with this picture?

[China Clipper]

An hour before dawn in the camp of last resort. Dozens of men and a few women are asleep in the beds of pickup trucks, in the back seats of cars or on flattened cardboard boxes in the dirt behind the Toro Loco market. The air is cool, but the terrible sun is close at hand. Martin Zavala is wrapped in a blanket, his head resting on a Scooby-Doo pillow, a pack of Marlboros under his neck. Thieves prowl at night and will snatch what is not secured.

Wow!! Does anyone else feel like this is "Grapes of Wrath" Part Deaux......

[jimt]

Some of the men relieve themselves next to their cars.

Such a pleasant sight in the morning, watching these heroic exploited workers exhibit their ever-present good manners and good hygienic habits.

Disgusting.

[gubamyster]

ping

[dalereed]

We need a bounty on illegals, $100 alive $500 dead!

Live ones cost too much to deport.

[raybbr]

"I'm poor. I'm uneducated. I don't expect this to ever change," Zavala says in Spanish. "But I'm doing it so my children may not have to."

Hey, this guy could be a democrat. "It's for the children."

[HoosierHawk]

Upton Sinclair and John Steinbeck wannabe ping!