Behind the Headlines
Mitchell Holman
U.S. working to let in more immigrants
LA Times
October 07, 2007
With a nationwide farmworker shortage threatening to leave
unharvested fruits and vegetables rotting in fields, the Bush
administration has begun quietly rewriting federal regulations
to eliminate barriers that restrict how foreign laborers can
legally be brought into the country.
The effort, urgently underway at the departments of Homeland
Security, State and Labor, is meant to rescue farm owners caught
in a vise between a complex process to hire legal guest workers
and stepped-up enforcement that has reduced the number of illegal
planters, pickers and middle managers crossing the border.
“It is important for the farm sector to have access to labor to
stay competitive,” said White House spokesman Scott Stanzel. “As
the southern border has tightened, some producers have a more
difficult time finding a workforce, and that is a factor of what
is going on today.”
The push to speedily rewrite the regulations is also the Bush
administration’s attempt to step into a breach left when Congress
did not pass an immigration overhaul in June that might have helped
American farms. Almost three-quarters of farmworkers are thought
to be illegal immigrants.
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/oct/07/nation/na-farmworkers7
f. barnes
Where in the constitution is it writ that big agriculture shall be
guaranteed an abundant supply of cheap labor, and not have to compete
for labor as do other businesses? It seems that once a man plants a
few vegetables in the ground he then thinks that he has some sort of
God given right to slave labor to harvest his crop.
Hell, why not save the auto industry by bringing in Somalis to work
for $2.00 per hour? Why not a constitutional amendment guaranteeing
every business a constant supply of labor at whatever low wage the
owners wish to pay? Of course, then, no one will have the money to
buy anyone's product, but at least every business will have cheap
labor until it goes bankrupt due to a lack of customers.
THE-M...@webtv.net
>Hell, why not save the auto industry by
>bringing in Somalis to work for $2.00
>per hour? Why not a constitutional
>amendment guaranteeing every
>business a constant supply of labor at
>whatever low wage the owners wish to
>pay?
Oh, Don't worry that $2.00 per hour or less salary is coming sooner than
you think...just as soon as the thiefs and lairs in congress get through
stealing all they can steal from the tax payers in the name of socailist
bailouts.... communism is not far behind. Thing is there will always be
some one willing to work for less than $2.00.