November 25, 2011

HB 87 -ENFORCEMENT WORKS! GEORGIA FARMERS RESORT TO BEGINNING TO OBEY LABOR AND IMMIGRATION LAWS WITH USE OF EXISTING GUEST WORKER PROGRAM – H2A! — What next? Newt Gingrich supports enforcement?

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ENFORCEEMNT WORKS! GEORGIA FARMERS RESORT TO BEGINNING TO OBEY LABOR AND IMIGRATION LAWS WITH USE OF EXISTING GUEST WORKER PROGRAM – H2A!
What next? Newt Gingrich supports enforcement?

Note from D.A. – watch the below news video and then tell me if you see what appears to be a child working in this Georgia onion field planting the crop?

WXIA TV Atlanta

VIDALIA, Ga. — Georgia vegetable growers are expecting to plant fewer crops this fall, and to try to use an unpopular federal program to recruit legal farm workers next spring.

“I think a lot of growers are looking to H2A as an alternative this spring,” said Charles Hall, director of the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association.

H2A provides temporary visas to foreign workers to enter the United States solely to work in an industry lacking a local labor force.

Growers are turning to H2A as a way to manage shortages of migrant labor expected next spring. Growers say Hispanic migrant workers have been frightened away from Georgia by the state’s new Arizona-style immigration law… MORE HERE