MEETING AT SENATOR LARRY CRAIG's OFFICE
April 3, 2006
IDAHO SENATOR LARRY CRAIG’s APRIL FOOLS JOKE ON U.S. CITIZENS
“It’s not an amnesty!” “They are doing jobs American’s will not do!”
According to the esteemed Senator, “If you were to close the borders effectively and you were not to allow anyone in, you would run the risk of collapsing American agriculture, because now over 75 percent of the work force is illegal and undocumented.”
1. In the Senators entire time in the House and Senate did he ever call for enforcement of our immigration laws?
2. According to Phillip Martin, Agricultural Economist, UC-Davis, it is mostly big producers in fruits, vegetables, and greenhouse and nursery crops that employ hired farm workers and many of these are U.S. citizens. Why is the Senator supporting, for the most part, large operators?
3. Why doesn’t the Senator tell the truth to the consumer that increasing wages would attract more citizens to work in agriculture while increasing the cost to the consumer only by pennies? Martin explains it thus-ly, “On a typical $1 head of lettuce, the farmer is getting a little under 20 cents. The farm worker is getting about 6 or 7 cents. Farmers get about a fifth, workers about a third, and that is 1/15th of price, and that’s why the farm labor share is a relatively small part of the retail price.”
The Senator, of infinite wisdom, supports an amnesty that “...would allow illegal workers to apply for citizenship if they have been in the country at least two years, passed a background check, worked at least 150 hours in agricultural jobs for six years and paid taxes.”
4. This is a bizarre statement. Illegal workers can apply for citizenship if they have been in the country for two years, while still having been working in agriculture for 6 years. The Senator must mean that “ Jose Campesino” would qualify for citizenship if he worked 150 hours (that’s 15- 10 hour days per year) in his home country for 4 or more years, but at least 2 years in the U.S.? Oh yeah, this hard worker must have paid his taxes, but to whom?
5. It would seem plausible that a background check undertaken by ICE or other responsible governmental agent now would undercover the fact that existing laws are being violated. Why are they not being enforced? Do you really expect us to believe yoy?
Some House conservatives have suggested allowing prisoners to pick America’s crops.
Of course, the Senator reminds us, “Our laws do not allow for prisoners to do that kind of work. Multiple court cases say that’s indentured servitude, and that is not allowed.”
6. Why does the law exclude agricultural jobs, when many prisons have farms? Why is okay to employ prisoners in the Federal Prison Industries (Unicor) or states to employ prisoners in making license plates? How many times have you seen prisoners along side our highways picking up garbage? Is it indentured servitude if the prisoner willingly volunteers for such work? Besides the senator must be a real compassionate guy, because it is alright for a lawbreaking alien to work in agriculture and gain citizenship, but it is not alright for a lawbreaking citizen to work in agriculture and pay his debt to society.
Senator Craig’s statements in Idaho Press-Tribune, April 1, 2006.
Questions by Robert B. Murray II, Ph.D.
In attendence @ the meeting: Mr. Doug Traubel
Mr. Larry Lundin
Mr. Jack M. Moutrie
Mr. Robert B. Murray II, Ph.D.
Additional Blog Site: www.allaboutillegalimmigration.blogspot.com
IDAHO SENATOR LARRY CRAIG’s APRIL FOOLS JOKE ON U.S. CITIZENS
“It’s not an amnesty!” “They are doing jobs American’s will not do!”
According to the esteemed Senator, “If you were to close the borders effectively and you were not to allow anyone in, you would run the risk of collapsing American agriculture, because now over 75 percent of the work force is illegal and undocumented.”
1. In the Senators entire time in the House and Senate did he ever call for enforcement of our immigration laws?
2. According to Phillip Martin, Agricultural Economist, UC-Davis, it is mostly big producers in fruits, vegetables, and greenhouse and nursery crops that employ hired farm workers and many of these are U.S. citizens. Why is the Senator supporting, for the most part, large operators?
3. Why doesn’t the Senator tell the truth to the consumer that increasing wages would attract more citizens to work in agriculture while increasing the cost to the consumer only by pennies? Martin explains it thus-ly, “On a typical $1 head of lettuce, the farmer is getting a little under 20 cents. The farm worker is getting about 6 or 7 cents. Farmers get about a fifth, workers about a third, and that is 1/15th of price, and that’s why the farm labor share is a relatively small part of the retail price.”
The Senator, of infinite wisdom, supports an amnesty that “...would allow illegal workers to apply for citizenship if they have been in the country at least two years, passed a background check, worked at least 150 hours in agricultural jobs for six years and paid taxes.”
4. This is a bizarre statement. Illegal workers can apply for citizenship if they have been in the country for two years, while still having been working in agriculture for 6 years. The Senator must mean that “ Jose Campesino” would qualify for citizenship if he worked 150 hours (that’s 15- 10 hour days per year) in his home country for 4 or more years, but at least 2 years in the U.S.? Oh yeah, this hard worker must have paid his taxes, but to whom?
5. It would seem plausible that a background check undertaken by ICE or other responsible governmental agent now would undercover the fact that existing laws are being violated. Why are they not being enforced? Do you really expect us to believe yoy?
Some House conservatives have suggested allowing prisoners to pick America’s crops.
Of course, the Senator reminds us, “Our laws do not allow for prisoners to do that kind of work. Multiple court cases say that’s indentured servitude, and that is not allowed.”
6. Why does the law exclude agricultural jobs, when many prisons have farms? Why is okay to employ prisoners in the Federal Prison Industries (Unicor) or states to employ prisoners in making license plates? How many times have you seen prisoners along side our highways picking up garbage? Is it indentured servitude if the prisoner willingly volunteers for such work? Besides the senator must be a real compassionate guy, because it is alright for a lawbreaking alien to work in agriculture and gain citizenship, but it is not alright for a lawbreaking citizen to work in agriculture and pay his debt to society.
Senator Craig’s statements in Idaho Press-Tribune, April 1, 2006.
Questions by Robert B. Murray II, Ph.D.
In attendence @ the meeting: Mr. Doug Traubel
Mr. Larry Lundin
Mr. Jack M. Moutrie
Mr. Robert B. Murray II, Ph.D.
Additional Blog Site: www.allaboutillegalimmigration.blogspot.com
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