According to the L.A. Times, Colorado is considering using convicts as farmworkers. Apparently, as a result of passing some of the strictest anti-illegal immigration laws in the country, farms are experiencing a severe labor shortage and crops are rotting in the fields.
Hey, didn’t Colorado pass these laws to ensure that illegal immigrants weren't taking jobs away from hard working Americans? I presume Colorado’s unemployment rate is not zero, so now that illegal immigrants have been forced to look outside the state for work, why aren’t the Coloradans who had lost these jobs to migrant workers rushing to fill the void? Rather than hire convicts, shouldn’t the state find some way to bus in workers from outlying areas around the state and have them stay in the same housing where the illegal immigrants stayed? This is good, honest work that can put food on the table.
One can only conclude that Coloradans--particularly its youth and unemployed--are lazy layabouts. I mean how hard can it be to spend 8 to 10 hours a day picking vegetables from the ground?
1 comment:
oh yeah i heard about that, that's awesome. can we use them for hunting practice too? no i really want to know
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