The deal is mostly about Mexicans crossing the border illegally and the 11 million already here again mostly Mexican. Yet interesting enough or least a factoid there is not one Mexican American, largest ethnic group in the country, in the bunch. Most of our Hispanic leaders, at least politically, are not Mexican descent either. In this group we have a Cuba born and a Puerto Rican senator. How many Puerto Ricans have immigration issues and are struggling to get into this country. With all due respect to our Puerto Rican brothers they do not have the first clue what it means to live in fear having the most powerful country in the world hunting you down separating you from your family to expel you after living in this country as a contributor for 10 plus years. Why are there not any Mexican Americans at the table? Not even one worker is represented. And make no mistake this is a work agreement not an immigration agreement. It s is a way to secure cheap labor for this country for now and in the future. Currently 10,000 Americans per day turn 65.
This deal is not really about providing a path to citizenship to the estimated 11 million undocumented. It is more about this country exercising basic economics by taking advantage of cheap labor from south of the border. What this agreement seeks is cheap uneducated and unskilled labor with employers never having to provide any tangible benefits to the workers - modern day slave labor. Even the unions have objected to any undocumented worker (or Mexican worker) having any rights to advance or bring any skill sets to perform electrical work or drive heavy equipment. Most groups and individuals working on the immigration agreement, including the gang of eight, will only agree to move this forward if only uneducated and unskilled labor is allowed. The US needs a labor pool they can give "the most dangerous, dirtiest, back breaking, with no potential to advance jobs that no one in their right mind would ever dream of doing" to. After the country's last purge attempt of Mexican labor it did prove many Americans are not willing to work and certainly will not work at the jobs most Mexicans are willing to do. As an example, labor shortages are being blamed from keeping the construction market from expanding. Why with unemployment still north of 7% in most states? Construction was a predominately Hispanic labor market paraded in front of TV cameras by anti-immigrant hate groups as a job killer for Americans. Now there is a shortage! Who is going to pick tomatoes, cherries, apples, cucumbers, etc.?
Most Americans have no idea the mistreatment farm workers have received in this country for the purpose of providing our dinner tables low cost meats, fruits and vegetables. Many families live crowded in one room shacks on blocks with no running water or indoor plumbing of any kind. Child labor laws are thrown out the window. One does not have to go to Africa or the far east to lobby against child labor and cruelty just look to our farms and food processors. Educating their children is seen as burden to American taxpayers with many states passing local legislation preventing children of illegals from attending school under the guise of protecting our children and our education resources. Although illegals pay taxes they receive no representation. There is something fundamentally wrong denying children an education regardless of the circumstances.
Since most Americans are blind to the squalor farm workers live in our new immigration agreement will allow, if passed, for more people to live like this. Heaven forbid we ask Americans to do this work. Georgia tried this approach and finally tried prison labor paying them a fare rate and they quit. Because the work is hard, it is hot when performed, and it is required every day 10 hours per day. Crops do not wait to be picked, When they are ready they must be picked. Our new immigration agreement will insure 21st century slavery with the farms acting as modern day plantations. The color of the skin is close enough.
I wonder what Congress will do to make sure only uneducated and unskilled workers are allowed. What kind of test do you give to someone to prove they are to dumb to not want to advance their lives and that of their families. How does someone design a test so only untalented people with no desire to advance to drive heavy equipment or install electrical wire are allowed to enter our great nation that promises the American dream to any one that works hard and advances? I guess we are going to have to add an asterisk. Is it fair for our country to fight for human rights and human dignity when we us the power of out government to repress a whole class of workers through an immigration agreement? It is fair for our country to work in far away lands to educate and pull people out of poverty and then create laws through an immigration agreement designed to keep an underclass under and an uneducated class uneducated? What do you think?
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