Yeah, right.
Posted on 09/20/2018 5:57:45 AM PDT by DFG
During a town hall event on Wednesday night, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) — running against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for the Senate seat — told a black American who questioned his support of illegal immigration that illegal aliens from Central America and Mexico are today’s cotton pickers. O’Rourke’s remarks were made after a black American asked the congressman if he supported illegal aliens being given U.S. citizenship despite breaking the country’s immigration laws. O’Rourke responded by saying that it is illegal aliens who are working at cotton gins today.
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Ben, your creepy lefty slip is showing again.
He calls them slaves and they line up to vote for him.
What Beta doesn’t seem to know is there is an H1A visa which allows an UNLIMITED number of LEGALS to come in to do agri work.
Ping.
"Probably"? Or maybe not........
Sort of. Sort of not. It was harder to get the seeds out before the cotton gin, so cotton was more expensive and less competitive. After the cotton gin, cotton was cheaper and cotton products were easier to buy. Combine that with all the new lands opening up, and cotton plantations became a bigger business than they would otherwise have been. There was more support for slavery and more opposition to emancipation and very likely more slaves than you would have had if cotton goods had remained more of a specialty product. The cotton gin didn't free workers from slavery, it just meant that slave labor could be deployed differently - with more profit to the slaveowner and more incentive to grow cotton and own slaves.
Can’t handle the truth?
What truth is that, Ben?
That you agree with a socialist?
Yeah, right.
I had a discussion with a black guy about a year ago regarding illegals. He had no issue with illegals doing jobs he claimed American citizens wouldn’t. I asked him why he favored illegals. His response was pay. It cost less. I responded regarding the studies that they wind up costing the American society far more than they save. After about ten minutes of going around and around with him, basically it boiled down to he was in favor of a permanent underclass akin to slave labor. Interesting position coming from a black person.
About 10% of the texas labor force is illegal and because they count the children of illegals, Texas schools get big, big bucks from the Education Dept
THAT is a John Deere cotton PICKER.
The cotton GIN is another machine altogether, and is usually NOT mobile.
"illegal aliens from Central America and Mexico are today’scotton pickers. "
As to the "collapse" of the Texas economy under your suggestion, the $10+ billion rainy day fund would more than take care of the drop in Education Dept. funding.
And this is the dirty little secret about illegal immigration. It’s the new Democrat method of providing slave labor. Bring them here in droves, put them up in barracks, feed and clothe them with a “company store” mentality, and push them to vote en-mass for candidates of the left’s choosing.
Not much has changed, has it?
I dunno, Paladin...I’m allergic to gin, and will be bedridden for two days if I drink it; probably the juniper berries it’s made from. I might have to try some of that cotton gin to see if I fare any better
I’m not going to look it up for you, but you can find it at Pew Hispanic. The 3 tier one states for illegals are Nevada, California, and Texas
Beto=tone-deaf fake Hispanic.
Ping!
That you Robert O’Rourke???
Longer than that...
That is the kind of thing they have been hoping for Trump to say. They would drive this all the way...
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