> -=> Kurt Weiske wrote to Tim Richardson <=-

 >  KW> I may be missing some details here.

 > The key is appropriate wage. As I previousy stated, for every head of
 > lettuce picked (BTW, it is picked by hand) the worker receives 0.3% of the
 > resale worth on that head. 
 
Work is work. The more you pick the more you earn.
 
 > From what I have read, and again, the source may be mistaken, most pickers
 > are migrant workers that do go back to Mexico after the season is finished.

No...they don't. Some do, but very few. they spend the rest of the year on
the American taxpayer's expense; food stamps, their minor children in our
schools. And many in `official' life don't just encourage it...they take
an active part in it!

They used to have school district school buses go to the border here every
morning and pick up Mexican kids to bus to OUR schools! The family lived
in Mexico...pay NO school taxes...and get their kids educated for free!

And no...it had nothing to do with *compassion*. School districts get money
per pupil from the US government in the form of `education' funds! 

PLUS....classes have to be taught in `spanish' (another expense).

I once worked for a farmer in New Mexico who had two illegal aliens work
for him. They would come and work for a month or so...the border patrol
would pull a sweep through the area, grab these two guys, take them to 
the Douglas Az border and send them across. A couple of days would go by 
and they'd be back, both of them. The guy'd put them back to work like
the were never gone.

 > They all have work visas 

No, they don't. It wasn't uncommon for the border patrol to raid a farm
and load a couple of buses with people who'd been picking fruit without 
visas or work permits of any kind. The democrats got so entrenched in
California over the years, and so arrogant about it they just stopped
enforcing any immigration laws here.

They're so arrogant about flaunting the law here they have two illegal
aliens on a city council up in Huntington Beach, and openly BRAG about it!

 > but I'm sure that's only possible if the farmers
 > are following the guidelings as set forth by Imigration.

They don't. None do. Its a standing joke out here!
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