Republicans Vote to Gut Enforcement, Increase Foreign Workers

[rangerrebew]

   Republicans Vote to Gut Enforcement, Increase Foreign Workers
By Mark Krikorian

July 27, 2018 2:52 PM

Appropriations Committee chairman Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen, February 25, 2016. (Gary Cameron/Reuters)
The DHS funding bill shows the skewed priorities of GOP appropriators

The House Appropriations Committee this week approved the Department of Homeland Security funding bill for fiscal year 2019 (starting October 1, 2018), after considering a raft of amendments. This is not necessarily the final product; the bill will likely be amended further if and when considered by the full House of Representatives, and again when the House and Senate confer on reconciling their respective versions of the legislation.

Nevertheless, at this stage the DHS appropriations bill, passed Wednesday on a party-line vote of 29–22, is a snapshot of priorities of this most important committee. And it contains several harmful provisions that would increase illegal immigration and the importation of foreign workers on “temporary” visas — provisions passed with the support of the Republican chairmen of the full committee and its Homeland Security subcommittee.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/immigration-dhs-appropriations-bill-bad-amendment/

[darroll]

Ever see a gringo pick apples? (pick apple, climb down ladder, repeat)
The seasonal fruit pickers are needed for our harvests. (The Mexicans)

[roamer_1]

Ever see a gringo pick apples? (pick apple, climb down ladder, repeat)
The seasonal fruit pickers are needed for our harvests. (The Mexicans)

Bullcrap. I picked apples and cherries as a teen.

[INVAR]

Like Rome as it fell, the GOP , as the Democrats, WANT barbarians in our gates to be our 'servants' and to be a revenue stream for taxation to keep things like the SoSec ponzi scheme afloat until they are long gone and the consequences of their actions collapse everything wholesale.

And like Rome - the barbarians in our gates will sack us from within and create their own nation beholden to foreign enemies.

[TomSea]

These are the kinds of worthless backstabbing politicians Trump promised to clean the swamp of, useless Never Trumpers. He needs our support even more really.

H-1B and L visas are ostensibly temporary, but are widely used as stepping-stones to permanent immigration.

One of the candidates wanted to really expand the H-1B visas but I think rewrote another bill that would make a path to citizenship non-existent or difficult.

[XenaLee]

Ever see a gringo pick apples? (pick apple, climb down ladder, repeat)
The seasonal fruit pickers are needed for our harvests. (The Mexicans)

With all due respect....that sounds more like an old Aggie joke retrofitted.  Most "gringos" I know can handle picking fruit or produce just as well as the "seasonal fruit pickers".  And they don't require lengthy siestas in between picking...lol.

[Victoria33]

Every year, Trump brings in foreign workers to his Florida golf place.  He has said he can't find Americans who want those jobs.  Sure.

[skeeter]

Bullcrap. I picked apples and cherries as a teen.

Same here. Apricots. Hard friggen work but that or a paper route were the only ways for <16 year olds to make money.

Besides, there already is a program for seasonal agricultural workers. No need for any increase.

[darroll]

Bullcrap. I picked apples and cherries as a teen.

You were sure better than me. I worked the whole weekend and made just over a dollar.
I was pretty good at bucking 100 pound bales. We got ten cents a-piece.

[Bigun]

If we truly can't find people legally here to pick our apples perhaps we should just forgo apples!

[darroll]

With all due respect....that sounds more like an old Aggie joke retrofitted.  Most "gringos" I know can handle picking fruit or produce just as well as the "seasonal fruit pickers".  And they don't require lengthy siestas in between picking...lol.

My family were good at picking cotton. We also picked pears at bear Creek Orchard in Medford, Or. and almost starved. We then started picking pine cones and we did fine at that. Five bucks a burlap bag.

[sneakypete]

Like Rome as it fell, the GOP , as the Democrats, WANT barbarians in our gates to be our 'servants' and to be a revenue stream for taxation to keep things like the SoSec ponzi scheme afloat until they are long gone and the consequences of their actions collapse everything wholesale.

And like Rome - the barbarians in our gates will sack us from within and create their own nation beholden to foreign enemies.

@INVAR

You sure nailed that one!

[roamer_1]

You were sure better than me. I worked the whole weekend and made just over a dollar.

There are tricks to it that make you efficient... Folks don't generally stick around long enough to learn all that... Actually, I found it to be fairly pleasant work... Always in the shade...

I was pretty good at bucking 100 pound bales. We got ten cents a-piece.

Yep. ten cents a bale here too... I have bucked many a bale, and still do to a smaller degree. The boys are the ones that get it in the barn, I just get it into the critters...