Don't Worry, We can get Pears from China

Re: Don't Worry, We can get Pears from China

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:58:26 -0700 (PDT), M A Granich
wrote :

>
> > Kids used to pick up a few thousand dollars doing
> > this, but that was made illegal too.
>
> Well, having illegal immigrants pick your fruit
> is....illegal too. Maybe this is about poor farm
> management rather than about laws protecting workers.

But here is the problem: the farmers know they are illegal, the govt knows they
are
illegal, you and I know they are illegal.. but the documents the workers carry
are real.
The fraud and corruption in this field is huge, even to the point the green
cards, real
ones fraudulently issued are down to about $25 each. The fruit is ripe, the
worker's
documents are in order, no other workers available...what's a farmer to do?

In spite of this congressional testimony back in 2001,

http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/testimony/0110a.htm

fraud on the part of people in Homeland Security goes unabated.

Instead of more rules, how about getting rid of rules, and see what happens
when
free people cooperate? It's what we used to do.

John

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