The Sacramento Bee (SacBee) offers "Editorial: Stop the raids/Farmworkers caught in immigration politics". Let's take a quick glance at how they're wrong:
...If the United States had a sensible immigration policy that allowed people to legally reside in this country for jobs that citizens simply don't want, such as onerous farming jobs in the Valley, it might make sense to sanction both employees and employers who are breaking workable laws...
The SacBee is saying that we should only enforce "workable" laws, with "workable" defined by corrupt growers and their supporters like the SacBee. And, of course, as has been pointed out many times the reason citizens aren't doing many jobs is because illegal aliens are able to underbid them on price or pliability.
These raids, however, have a strange cruelty about them. Agents are going after some of the state's most vulnerable residents. The large farmers and the contracting organizations that hire these immigrants, to no great surprise, are not being targeted in these raids.
What a bunch of humanitarians. Of course, since most farmworkers in the state are very poor, the SacBee is hiding behind those "vulnerable residents" to support a serf system. If they want to support going after the employers, fine. But, their support for only enforcing "workable" laws makes it clear that supporting giving those employers a low-wage work force is their real goal. And, of course, if we enforced our current laws, there would be many few "vulnerable residents" for the SacBee to hide behind.
Immigration2007a · Mon, 04/02/2007 - 09:46 · Importance: 1
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