Reply #48: NVmojo and sadie...read these articles and see what's really up

[EVDebs]

"Law Shouldn't Allow High-Tech Industry To Indenture Immigrants"
http://www.commondreams.org/views/092900-103.htm

The situation is more like this article shows: "high tech sweatshops"

And the United Farm Workers works to limit immigration, and as this article shows, get legal status for the many who have already come across the border for starvation wages: "Farm Worker Bill Gaining Momentum"

http://www.visalaw.com/04apr1/12apr104.html

The impacts of continued illegal immigration, from a UCDavis researcher of UFW research on strawberry industry in CA shows us that

"...unauthorized workers continue to enter the strawberry labor force, reminding current workers that they can be replaced by more vulnerable workers. There has been relatively little INS enforcement in agriculture: according to a recent GAO report, about 38 percent or 760,000 of the nation's two million crop workers are not authorized to work in the US, but the INS removed only 700 unauthorized farm workers from US farms in FY97. This suggests that, so long as unauthorized workers continue to enter the US, the workers and their US employers can satisfy the letter of the law and avoid enforcement that might result in labor shortages and upward pressure on wages."

Yes, who will do the 'dirty work' ? I remember when in the old days the high school kids did the ag work of harvesting during the summmer months (in fact, that's why the summer vacation is there in the first place; also, some older people would make money in the old days picking prunes and apples in the area I am from). Those days are gone for sure, but unless "living wage", which is assumed for those already US citizens, can be eventually ensured for those doing the 'dirty work' ... who aren't adequately compensated as you are well aware... then there is NO INCENTIVE to stop hiring those desperate for any work by employers ready to illegally hire them at inadequate wages, which through economic multiplier effects depresses wages for EVERYONE !

Think nvmojo and sadiesworld...a break from the current over-immigration policy is all I'm asking for, along with a financial remuneration of $10,000 from employers who have displaced US workers and/or illegally hired immigrants.

In the long run it benefits immigrants.