[sweetcali]

Originally Posted by SuperFemme

OMFG. Seriously? Seriously?

Crops need to be harvested? But he doesn't want a Mexican washing his car, mowing his lawn and he doesn't need to eat at fast food restaurants? Come here, work the job, pay taxes, don't have babies here or be a "burden" on the taxpayers and then get the fuck out and go home when the state of AZ is done with you?

Seriously?

It has taken me awhile to respond in this thread due to life not giving me enough stamina. LOL I lived in Monterey County for over 20yrs. The Salinas Valley salad capital of the world. I would see these workers out in those fields before sunrise and after sunset. I did outreach work for a while and I have seen the conditions these field workers live in. I have seen the terror in their eyes when some white person they didn't know approached them.

I have seen the delight in many a person's eyes as they eat their fresh salad on the table in front of them. I have heard jokes about "those" people that picked that very salad they were eating. I have listened to many a white boy complain about not being able to get a job; yet you never saw a white boy go apply to work in those fields. I never saw a white boy standing on the corner at the 7-11 or home depot looking for work; yet they would complain about not getting a job and make fun of the very people willing to work in deplorable conditions just to make a few pennies to feed their families.

I think it is time that some of these people get off their high horses, take off their rose colored glasses and take a serious look at how asinine their laws really are; whilst eating their fresh salad at their $1000 a plate fund raiser to create a racist law.

There ego's need to be put in check. They need to get off that all might white cloud they are sitting on.

Oh and I wonder if they enjoyed that nice little mint placed upon their $500 dollar a night hotel room.

The whole law makes me ill and it also makes me wonder how terrified some of these people are. I wonder if those great law makers realize the danger and fear of their own lives they just put these people in.

I wonder how many of them chased an illegal farm worker through the fields just to give them the information on where to go to get medical care, etc.

The whole thought process behind this law makes me ill.

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