The state next door has enacted a brutal anti-immigrant law, Alabama encase you are interested, and since the law immigrants have been fleeing the state faster than rats from the Titanic…..and now the geniuses in the political sphere are starting to think they may have pissed in their chili……farmers are crying that they cannot find workers to harvest their crops and they may well rot in the fields…..
First…let me pause here to laugh my ass off!
Wait! Are these the same jobs that the immigrants were taking from us poor Americans? For years now I have heard red necks bitch and moan about all the jobs these people were stealing from us hard working Americans……so far I have not seen a crush of Americans rushing to apply for any of these jobs……..
Another pause here……….
But now the legislators are considering changing the wording of the law and the Obama admin has filed a suit to stop the implementation of the law…….is there an answer to the problem of the exodus of immigrants?
We know Americans will not rush to the aid of the farmers……so short of admitting that they, the politicians, screwed up….what could be the answer for the problem?
Alabama farmers have proposed using prisoners to work their fields to replace migrants who fled the state after it passed the country’s harshest anti-immigration law, officials said Tuesday.
The Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industry officials met Tuesday in Mobile with farmers to discuss their proposal, a spokeswoman for the department told AFP.
“The suggestion to use prisoners who are eligible for work release programs was made as a way to help farmers fill the gap and find sufficient labor,” said Amy Belcher.
A statement by the department said the meeting with the farmers was convened “to help solve the chronic labor shortages created by Alabama’s new immigration law.”
Why not? That has been the answer for centuries in the South…..forced labor….and the farmers will pay convicts less than they paid the immigrants……so basically the problem is…..finding CHEAP labor!