Lettuce growers in Arizona are being annoyed by the Border Patrol. It seems the Border Patrol is arresting and deporting the undocumented Mexican workers coming to Arizona to pick lettuce.
After about a hundred years of using undocumented workers to harvest lettuce, and paying them a pittance to do it, the lettuce growers say they have no way of determining which worker has false documents. The growers say they would not hire them if they believed they were in the country illegally.
Who do they think they're kidding?
The growers make more profit using illegal workers. They illegal workers don't give the bosses any trouble either; cooperate or I'll turn you in to the Border Patrol.
Why doesn't the U.S. Government prosecute employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers? See the next paragraph for the answer.
Our government goes to a lot of trouble to make it LOOK like we want to stop illegal immigrants. In fact, they know that big business, especially agribusiness, drives our policies on immigration. Government policy is pretty much whatever Congress allows, and what Congress allows is what doesn't irritate the big campaign donors.
End of that story. But stay tuned for the coming story on how someone in the government is going to be held responsible for letting those bad, bad terrorists into the country from Mexico.
Here is a novel idea. Grow the lettuce in Mexico and the workers wouldn't have to sneak in to the country to pick it. NAFTA and all that!
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