As I said elsewhere, when I was young, we kids did it. Where I live, we picked beans, peas, various fruits, etc. When I got older, I worked in the canneries on all the fruits, plus corn. Because they enforced the laws, we needed few Green Card holders. We earned enough money to buy the things we needed for the school year.
To my mind, anyone's unfulfilled promise is a lie. Biden lies about the economy and the border. He tells you your grocery prices went down in April. Did yours? Mine didn't.
Why don't I step up and harvest all the crops? Because I have fibro, dysautonomia, and spondylolisthesis. I'm pushing 70 and walk with a walker. Talk sense!
How do laws stop people from breaking them if they think they're above the law? First you have to have a justice system that doesn't also think they're above the law. Then they simply enforce the law without fear or favor. We haven't had that kind of a justice system in this country for years. You don't need to put people who hire illegals in prison. You round up the illegals at the various businesses, sending them back across the border. Then you make a hefty fine -- $250,000, say -- per illegal. However much it would take to put a real dent in their business, or even put them out of business. When they did something similar before, the business owners were happy to fire all the illegals rather than go out of business...once they saw ICE was making the raids of the businesses.
We should save the prisons for the violent criminals, of which there are more than enough. And we shouldn't get all weepy about how the US has more people in prison than any other industrial country. We have more criminals than any other industrial country, and part of the reason why is that we're reticent to put the violent criminals in prison where they belong. We used to build more prisons in times like these. Now we think it's a terrible idea. No. It isn't.
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Ranb (7773)
19 days ago
When you were young, there was probably a ton of illegals already working in the fields. Why are you so naive to believe otherwise?
Yes, we need to put the employers of illegal aliens in prison. They are violating the law and facilitating the violation of the law by others.
You say we need to enforce the law and without favor, but you want to let the employers off the hook at the same time? You are a hypocrite.
Allowing a person who violates the law, to just pay a fine, means it is legal for the wealthy. Prison time is the answer.
Employers who fire the illegals after being caught violating the law, but then staying out of prison is not fair. They need to pay the price for their criminal actions.
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Destinata (2790)
19 days ago
Okay. First line, and you think you know what life was like back in the '60's. No. You don't. There were some, not many. Just like there weren't a lot of Hispanic kids in school. To pick berries and beans, it was a bunch of white kids who got up at 3am to catch the bus to the fields.
Now tell me we didn't get up that early. Or there was no bus. Or that we wouldn't have been able to spot the illegals in the crowd of elementary school-aged kids.
Dude. You weren't there. And since that's how you argue, I'm done.
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