Burning Atlanta

I read these stories aLL the time. "Oh, we couldn't survive without 'immigrant' labor." MY ASS. How did this country ever survive without all these millions of illegals? Who did all those jobs? The answer is not importing more cheap labor, the anser is going up on wages which none of these "farmers" wants to do. They've got a good deal using illegals and they don't want anything to change that. And these politicians are happy to sell out the nation to keep Mr. Greenjeans, etc.. happy.

Pay more. Get legal employees.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - The arrest of two immigrant farm workers Wednesday prompted Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas to tell Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff about the need for comprehensive immigration reform to ensure that farms have enough labor, Douglas's spokesman said.

It was apparently a coincidence that the Mexican workers were apprehended by the Border Patrol the same day that Chertoff was in Vermont to promote a state plan for enhanced driver's licenses that would make it easier for people to cross the border.

'The governor understands the responsibility of the Border Patrol is to enforce the existing law, which is why he talked about comprehensive reform,' Gibbs said.

Douglas, a Republican, told Chertoff that he supported the agriculture jobs bill being promoted by U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Democrat, 'so the Border Patrol and other federal agencies could devote more attention to securing the borders from terrorist threats and drug runners.'

Richard Dodd his brother and their wives are partners in Dodd Farms, a 1,300-acre operation with 500 head of cattle that milks 300 cows three times a day. The two immigrants who were arrested had only been working for them for a few weeks, Dawn Dodd said.

Border Patrol spokesman Mark Henry said a routine traffic stop led agents to the workers, whose identities were not released.

But Richard Dodd said he felt someone had turned his workers in.

'I don't know if they'd been staking us out or what,' Richard Dodd said. 'They caught them as they were coming into the driveway.'

After the two were arrested, they were taken back to the mobile home where they had been staying and allowed to collect their belongings, Nocke and Gibbs said. Richard Dodd was later allowed to deliver their paychecks, although he did not get a chance to speak to them. Mr. Dodd, you should be in prison. I know, I know. You didn't KNOW they were illegals.