Posted on 07/02/2011 12:52:33 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
WRAY, Ga., - One of the toughest laws yet to fight illegal immigration went into effect today in Georgia. A federal judge has temporarily blocked the most controversial provision - requiring police to check the immigration status of suspects who don't have proper identification.
But it is now a felony to use false documentation to apply for a job. CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann says Georgia farmers have been anticipating this day, and the law is already having a big effect.
In south Georgia, it's a banner year for blackberries - but a bad year for berry farmer Gary Paulk.
"There's a lot of what appear to be good berries," Paulk said. "If we had the workers."
On one corner of this family farm, twenty acres of blackberries rot away.
"This is a healthy field. And it should have been picked," Paulk said. "But there's nobody here."
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I don't shout at the TV as much as I sneer at it, or just click off.... LOL.
Yep, the “click off” always follows the shouting, lol.
Loud noises upset my dogs.
The farmers need to go down to the welfare office & pick out the workers they need. Anyone who can work but refuses to work needs to be escorted out of the welfare office & told not to return - EVER.
My thought, as well.
I have two blackberry patches and more wild vines that line the paths we mow. It is hot work in mosquito territory. So, in the early morning, I gear up with long sleeves, sox and long pants, a hydrated silica gel cooling hat and neck wrap, I pick like a wild woman for about an hour and I end up with at least a gallon, usually more. I do it again in the evening. My husband does the same a couple days a week on the other patch. We put away 8-12 gallons a year, plus we eat a lot of them fresh and give away a lot more. There are more berries than we can use. I have an open invitation to anyone I know who wants to pick and there is a swimming pool to cool off in, afterward. Few want to do the work. They would rather pay $3/pint in the store or be the recipient of our generosity.
In this economy, my fresh or frozen berries are a luxury for which I am willing to sweat a little, not to mention getting scratched by the vines. Besides the berries, it is simply a rite of summer. And in January, it is a tiny bit of that summer brought back to life.
I don't care about Gary Paulk's berries. I don't care about what this will or won't do to the price of berries.
I care about the law.
I care about public safety.
I care about overcrowded schools.
I care about overcrowded ERs.
I care about property values.
I care about the future of my country.
I can choose to live without berries or pay extra if I want them.
I am being forced to pay for and live with Illegal Immigrants.
And I'm F'g TIRED of people telling me all the reasons why I have to.
Good points.
Sorry for your loss, Gary, but if you had been willing to pay more than you wouldnt have to rely on cheap, ILLEGAL labor . . Yeah, I sure wish I could import a maid, a cook, a driver, a bodyguard overseas and pay a small wage . but I’m restricted from doing that and so should you.
Furthermore, I don’t really care to subsidize the illegals’ crime, babies, health care, drug usages, abuse . . so tough toenails.
They’ve all been aborted, every one.
When will they ever learn?
As this economy gets worse and the folks get hungrier, Mr. Blackberry farmer will have no trouble finding pickers.
I wonder how it affected welfare rolls (note my tagline)?
Oh my, I do remember my mom’s homemade black cobbler with hand churned homemade vanilla ice cream. We had wild strawberries along our fence rows but Molly, the Jersey cow, loved them and always ate all she could find so there were never any left. When I was small, I never could figure out why her milk wasn’t pink. In the Hill Country in west Texas there are lots of peach growers. Some let you come and pick your own. Amazed at the number of city folks that stopped who had never seen a real peach tree with fruit. One place also had some cherry trees and one lady asked if they grew any maraschino cherries. One thing about being older is all the stuff we have to share with grandchildren - their life is so different.
Some of these crimes are petty--there's an amazing amount of DUI and hit-and-runs with illegals. Some are lots worse--home invasion and abuse of little girls.
But they make it out that we just don't want to pay for schools and medical care for their dear little ones. That's peanuts compared to what it costs us in prisons and LE processing.
It could be managed legally, except that "now that the job's done, you go home" is not enforced.
I would. I'd also send every illegal back South of the border. I'd also do everything I could to shut down any business who hires illegals.
America is FUBAR because few respects the Rule of Law.
That reminds me of shaking Mulberry trees and picking up the fallen berries.;
Just remember, don’t eat the ones crawling away! :^}
Very good. I agree.
That was meant facetiously. Mexico has always been a nation with a culture that accepted and that signified corruption, siestas, bullshxt, a rich 1% that kept the masses on a short leash, and little accomplishment.
It should bother the hxll out of every American that any politicians and businessmen would want to turn the USA into Mexico.
The Club for Growth and the Freedom Works outrageously support amnesty. Google it if you do not believe me.
I’m sorry but anything that these two organizations (the Kochs/Dick Armey, etc ) want is tainted by their absurd traitorous stance that more Mexican illegals are good for America. Less illegals and more opportunity for the Americans that founded the USA are good for America.
Gary Paulk is nothing but a base criminal to me. Hiring illegals to pick his crop while sticking the rest of with the costs.
He can go to jail with the rest of WSJ open boarders crowd.
I have an answer for you here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2743231/posts?page=2#2
They cost the taxpayer an estimated $2 billion, and that is in GA alone.
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