Rocks Thrown at Border Patrol Chopper

Aluckyguess wrote:
All they have to do is go down to our local Home Depot and they could pick
up 200 of them on any day of the week.

They could get quite a few at the train station in Red Bank, NJ.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

Ain't it weird!
We all seem to know where they are but our Homeland Security doesn't?
Around 11 million they say, and can not find them. Hmmm is it just me or
does common sense say if you can't stop illegals at the border or find 11
million already here Osama himself could walk across the border and we would
never know it..well until something else blows up! Makes all these subway
searches and crap look real stupid in my book.

Patrick
student SPL
aircraft structural mech

"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Aluckyguess wrote:
All they have to do is go down to our local Home Depot and they could
pick up 200 of them on any day of the week.

They could get quite a few at the train station in Red Bank, NJ.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

Farmers were upset in Arizona. They did a crack down and there were not
enough laborers to pick the fields. I heard they eased up a bit to help them
out.

"Aluckyguess" wrote in message
...

Farmers were upset in Arizona. They did a crack down and there were not
enough laborers to pick the fields. I heard they eased up a bit to help
them
out.

There's plenty of laborers; they get migrant worker (temporary)permits (??)
easily.


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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

Matt Barrow wrote:

There's plenty of laborers; they get migrant worker (temporary)permits (??)
easily.

Not this year. Apparently, someone at immigration decided these guys were easy
targets and did a big roundup. You are correct that they have permits and were
actually legal, but that didn't change anything. By the time the workers made it
back across the border and into the fields, a big chunk of this year's harvest
was lost.

NPR was interviewing a California peach grower yesterday about the situation (I
think it was on "All Things Considered"). His crop has a relatively short
harvest season, and the roundup didn't hit him too badly, but he still had tons
of fruit rot in the fields.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

.... By the time the workers made it back across the
border and into the fields, a big chunk of this year's harvest
was lost.

NPR was interviewing a California peach grower ....
...he still had tons of fruit rot in the fields.

My heart bleeds....

Please, what's really going on here is that the employer (farmer, grower,
whatever) was too cheap to hire more labor to come in and finish the job. I
believe many employers do this intentionally to protest the cut-off of their
cheap labor supply.

The implication is that the American economy will somehow shut down if we
don't allow illegal immigration, when all that's really needed is for
employers to be more responsible.

Frankie

Frankie wrote:

The implication is that the American economy will somehow shut down if we
don't allow illegal immigration, when all that's really needed is for
employers to be more responsible.

You must have missed the point that these workers are *not* illegal, nor or they
immigrants. They are temporary workers who have permits to allow them to come in
for the season.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

Frankie wrote:
My heart bleeds....

Please, what's really going on here is that the employer (farmer, grower,
whatever) was too cheap to hire more labor to come in and finish the job. I
believe many employers do this intentionally to protest the cut-off of their
cheap labor supply.

Exactly... and most Americans are too cheap to pay what it would REALLY cost
to buy food, a home or most other things (except automobiles) if real actual
citizens did the work and got paid a fair wage for the work.

LAbor is just at the bottom of the food chain... Govenment is at the top.. it
sucks at all the money from everyone's pockets from the laborer to the larges
corporations, their stockholders (lots of retired people) and the CEOs.

George Patterson wrote:

You are correct that they have permits and were
actually legal, but that didn't change anything.

Am I following this correctly? Homeland security, having failed to handle
the problem of illegal immigration, deported *legal* immigrants?

Based upon this, I need to take a better look at my neighbors. Bin Laden is
probably living in some suburban US town watching CNN. The largest threat
to his health is that he'll kill himself laughing at our "war against
terrorism".

- Andrew

Andrew Gideon wrote:

Am I following this correctly? Homeland security, having failed to handle
the problem of illegal immigration, deported *legal* immigrants?

Bingo!

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.