Thank you Randy Evans for your excellent comments on Iowa’s dependence on immigrant workers! We NEED THEM and MANY BECOME FINE CITIZENS. My grandparents were immigrants to the U.S.
In the 1940s. Our family has contributed to American society I so many ways!
These industrial agricultural businesses are not “farms” and should not be treated as such. The hypocrisy of them hiding behind the “family farmer” moniker is increasingly putrefying. Family farms do not hire tens or hundreds of workers, businesses do. Family farms do not need biodigestors, businesses do. Family farms do not spread millions of gallons of waste around their homesteads, businesses do.
John, your sentiments are understandable. Thank you for articulating those. But, as the column notes, there are tens of thousands of undocumented workers in Iowa who fill jobs no one else is clamoring to take. That's why there are R's and D's in our state who want to find a middle ground.
Randy, it isn't a question of my view being understable. It's a question of legality. If thousands, no, millions of illegals are allowed to live and work in the US, and even get various forms of government assistance, then the whole concept of citizenship is devalued if not negated.
Then there's the question of the impact on wages. People who see themselves as Democrats concerned with social justice display a blind spot on this issue that Trump exploits expertly.
Thank you Randy Evans for your excellent comments on Iowa’s dependence on immigrant workers! We NEED THEM and MANY BECOME FINE CITIZENS. My grandparents were immigrants to the U.S.
In the 1940s. Our family has contributed to American society I so many ways!
These industrial agricultural businesses are not “farms” and should not be treated as such. The hypocrisy of them hiding behind the “family farmer” moniker is increasingly putrefying. Family farms do not hire tens or hundreds of workers, businesses do. Family farms do not need biodigestors, businesses do. Family farms do not spread millions of gallons of waste around their homesteads, businesses do.
I'm a permanent resident of Mexico. I have the papers to prove that I legally reside here.
If I was living in Mexico illegally, I would have no defense if the authorities deported me.
Why should illegals in the United States not be subject to the same treatment?
John, your sentiments are understandable. Thank you for articulating those. But, as the column notes, there are tens of thousands of undocumented workers in Iowa who fill jobs no one else is clamoring to take. That's why there are R's and D's in our state who want to find a middle ground.
Randy, it isn't a question of my view being understable. It's a question of legality. If thousands, no, millions of illegals are allowed to live and work in the US, and even get various forms of government assistance, then the whole concept of citizenship is devalued if not negated.
Then there's the question of the impact on wages. People who see themselves as Democrats concerned with social justice display a blind spot on this issue that Trump exploits expertly.