<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:23 PM, William Fragakis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:william@fragakis.com">william@fragakis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
It's so full of irony that people in GA are so wound up about this. The<br>
poultry industry in N. GA, farming in S. GA and the building trade in<br>
Atlanta would be devastated if, overnight, GA was swept "clean". They<br>
tried once to clean the illegals off the farms in FL and the farm owners<br>
revolted on the spot.<br>
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How many of those most fervent are the same ones who pick up laborers<br>
behind Home Depot or have their yards done by a bunch of guys south of<br>
the border?<br>
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wf<br>
</font></blockquote><div><br>You betcha. In the late 1980s when the Mexican immigration to Atlanta was just cranking up big time, I ran a commercial cabinet shop mostly servicing the commercial building industry. I hired a few immigrant workers, who produced about three times the amount of output per capita of the other workers in the shop. At the time I strongly suspected these guys were here without documents, although I did the minimal necessary under the law at that time to validate their citizenship (no one ever told me I was required to become an expert at checking the validity of documents). Recently, in a discussion with a wingnut acquintance he got very exercised when I told him the situation, and shouted that I should be in jail. When I didn't express the proper remorse I was told I was not only a criminal (for hiring productive workers) but a smug criminal.<br>
<br>If you were to really deport every Mexican (or Central American) worker who was here illegal the commerical construction industry would collapse. That's a simple fact.<br><br>Larry<br></div></div>