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Pay migrant workers more

I recently read an article in the paper about the migrant workers who pick tomatoes.

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Kevin from Lowell
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May 11, 2008
 
If they only paid them 10 cents a basket, maybe they would stop crossing the border! Think of all the money we would save on social services and health care!
Speedy Gonzalos
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May 11, 2008
 
Kevin from Lowell wrote:
If they only paid them 10 cents a basket, maybe they would stop crossing the border! Think of all the money we would save on social services and health care!
Yeah right!You would be the first one to cry when you pay 20.00 for a package of tomatoes..
Kevin from Lowell
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May 11, 2008
 
I grow them in my back yard speedy!
Kevin from Lowell
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May 11, 2008
 
Speedy Gonzalos wrote:
<quoted text>Yeah right!You would be the first one to cry when you pay 20.00 for a package of tomatoes..
I also pick them myself. I clean my own bathroom, and I also mow my own lawn. I guess I won't need to learn Spanish after all!
Beaner Boy
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May 11, 2008
 
You are kidding aren't you?they have already screwed up the whole economic stucture of ths country. how many of their relatives have fought for this country??? thats right, none of them you puke !!!!

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May 11, 2008
 
Kevin from Lowell wrote:
<quoted text>I also pick them myself. I clean my own bathroom, and I also mow my own lawn. I guess I won't need to learn Spanish after all!
It said migrant, not illegals. There is a difference.
Kevin from Lowell
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May 11, 2008
 
LOVE THIS COUNTRY wrote:
<quoted text> It said migrant, not illegals. There is a difference.
Well in this day and age, it depends on whether you're speaking from the left side of the aisle or the right.
I don't think I misunderstood your comment, but if I did I apologize.
I'm just a little tired of people telling me I'd be lost without illegal aliens because I can't do anything for myself.
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May 11, 2008
 
Beaner Boy wrote:
You are kidding aren't you?they have already screwed up the whole economic stucture of ths country. how many of their relatives have fought for this country??? thats right, none of them you puke !!!!
Get away from the computer or I'll tell your mommy.
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May 11, 2008
 
I'll take up the empty seat at Burger King. I can't afford things now - go Burger King, keep our costs down and tomato production up.

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May 12, 2008
 
Kevin from Lowell wrote:
If they only paid them 10 cents a basket, maybe they would stop crossing the border! Think of all the money we would save on social services and health care!
Migrant worker. A person who moves from place to place to get work, esp. a farm laborer who harvests crops seasonally.An illegal immigrant is a foreigner who either has illegally crossed an international political border, be it by land, water, or air, or a foreigner who has entered a country legally but then overstays his/her visa.
Kevin from Lowell
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May 12, 2008
 
LOVE THIS COUNTRY wrote:
<quoted text>Migrant worker. A person who moves from place to place to get work, esp. a farm laborer who harvests crops seasonally.An illegal immigrant is a foreigner who either has illegally crossed an international political border, be it by land, water, or air, or a foreigner who has entered a country legally but then overstays his/her visa.
I know what a migrant worker is, but unless you live in a cave you would know the majority of people working the fields are illegal migrants. Wake up!!!
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May 12, 2008
 
Kevin from Lowell wrote:
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I know what a migrant worker is, but unless you live in a cave you would know the majority of people working the fields are illegal migrants. Wake up!!!
When a car with federal plates on it shows up at the old lettuce farm, the pickers scatter like cockroaches on Middlesex street when the lights go on. That tells you someting.

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May 13, 2008
 
Kevin from Lowell wrote:
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I know what a migrant worker is, but unless you live in a cave you would know the majority of people working the fields are illegal migrants. Wake up!!!
But the fact remains here the forum is about MIGRANT workers nowhere does it mention ILLEGALS that was my point to you ... You are the one that added that to this Blog. Sorry just pointing out a fact.Didn't want to start a war with you...

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May 13, 2008
 
and I don't live in a cave I live in Lowell just like you!
Retarded Commentary
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May 13, 2008
 
And for every dollar you pay them, they in turn send the money out of the country. This is nothing more than a modern version of the VANDALS.

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May 13, 2008
 
Retarded Commentary wrote:
And for every dollar you pay them, they in turn send the money out of the country. This is nothing more than a modern version of the VANDALS.
Who are you talking about?
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May 14, 2008
 
the answer is simple, arrest the illegals and put them on chain gangs and let them pick the fruits that they come break the law to do so.
Kevin from Lowell
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May 14, 2008
 
hammerhead wrote:
the answer is simple, arrest the illegals and put them on chain gangs and let them pick the fruits that they come break the law to do so.
Sounds good to me.

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May 14, 2008
 
Kevin from Lowell wrote:
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I know what a migrant worker is, but unless you live in a cave you would know the majority of people working the fields are illegal migrants. Wake up!!!


It's true. Majority of the people that are "migrant" farmers are illegal.
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May 14, 2008
 
send them home - see what they get for fringe benefits there.
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