Tuesday Open Thread

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1. Still waiting for the All-Americans to explain why they don't want any actions or sanctions on those who profit from illegal immigration.  What's the matter C.B?  Too busy reacting to the coming roundups and race war to give a flying fuck about those who are reaping the benefit of slave wages and are denying real Americans a chance to pick lettuce?

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   1. See my other reply. Of course, your generalizations and name-calling really aren't looking for a reply, are they?

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      1. Where was your reply C.B.  I missed it.

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      2. What generalizations by the way?  Do you think all those business owners who knowingly hire undocumented workers have been mischaracterized and are just swell guys with a bad rap?

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      3. Sorry C.B.  I did go back and see your reply.  So you don't think that the people who knowingly hire undocumented immigrants are corrupt.  They hire people at slave wages and threaten to turn them in if the immigrants complain.  They don't pay for any benefits and and pocket the Social Security and taxes that they charge for this labor and then let the taxpayer pay for the American workers who have to go on unemployment.  How is that not corrupt?

         If indeed there are no Americans who want to pick lettuce than how do pogroms of racial hatred solve the problem.  Do you cut the owner some slack and allow for visas or do you just assume that with Republican trickle down economics that at some point there will be Americans desperate enough who will fight to pick lettuce?  Is this a race to bottom strategy?

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2. Crops Rot While Trump-Led Immigration Backlash Idles Farm Work

   The last major push for reform, a 2013 agreement that agriculture groups worked out with senators Dianne Feinstein of California and Michael Bennet of Colorado, both Democrats, along with Republicans Marco Rubio of Florida and Orrin Hatch of Utah, allowed up to 337,000 farmworker visas over three years. The current H-2A visa program for agriculture laborers last year granted 139,832 temporary stays, according to Labor Department data.

   The rise of Trump, who felled Rubio and other reform-minded rivals to become the likely Republican nominee, has squelched any push toward reviving guest-worker proposals and put farmworker advocates on the defensive, said Craig Regelbrugge, co-chairman of the Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform. Trump has vowed to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico and has questioned migrant contributions to the economy.

   “The atmosphere is so roiled with the presidential election,” Regelbrugge said. “The angst, the anger, the whatever that is so resonant in a fairly broad swath of the electorate, it makes House members, especially Republicans, fear they’ll be hurt in a primary if they work for reform.”

    

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   1. One of the recurring themes in World War Zombie is cannibalism when all the squirrels were shot and the grass boiled.  It got down to being a pretty inhumane world.  Wouldn't it be ironic if the Bubba's ended up starving to death because the food rotted in the fields because of their racism.

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3. Remember all the times our new Buffoon-in-Chief criticized Obama for playing golf?  Well as our GOP Trolls will gladly tell you, IOKIYAR

   Donald Trump regularly assailed President Barack Obama for playing golf, then spent the first weekends of his own presidency doing just that. He attacked Obama for using Air Force One to campaign, and did it over the weekend just a month into the job. He mocked Obama for heading out of Washington at taxpayer expense, but appears to have no qualms about doing so himself.

   Trump is definitely not up to the job of running the country (working Congress to pass actual legislation is such hard work!).  So far most of the Executive Orders are little more than press releases with a little legalese to add flavor directing various administration officials or groups to "develop a strategy" to wish away all the problems Trump promised "I alone will fix".

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