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Y'know, this would be some impressive comedy fodder if it wasn't for the strong probability that these bigoted lackwits were either going to
a) blow away a group of unarmed people near the border for the crime of being ethnic without papers, or
b) run into a gang of coyotes, who'd massacre them on general principles.
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There is nothing of comedy to it.
And a lackwit is any person who makes assumptions and statements about an issue without checking.
These people are tresspassing on private property and while most are probably harmless a large percentage are not.
You have no concept of what it's like to have a large numbers of often shady and sometimes armed strangers using your property without permission for unpredictable and often illegal purposes.
While I live no where near the border I sadly have experience with people forcing themselves onto my farm land or my home place and putting it to their personal use.
Have you ever had to stare down a man wild on one drug he's still smoking, while going through withdrawel for another? A man who walks out of your parent's pasture covered in mud and screaming at the imaginary DEA in the woods.
(It took the local police two days to respond.)
It's no fun chasing cattle for hours because someone cut your fences or left the gates open.
Have you ever had Grave robbers come in to the indian mounds day or night digging 2 to 4 foot deep trenches that are can be several feet long trampling crops and leaving metal rods used for probing or metal tools that puncture or slash tractor tires.
(Tractor tires that are taller than you are and given the water ballast can weigh more than a small car.)
Variations of the above has happend multiple times.
Have you ever been driving your own property on your private equipment trails and suddenly come on a group of eight to ten men in two cars with a drug deal going down?
Have you ever been star gazing on your own property at 3 AM when a small convoy of vehicles crosses your land less than a 1/3 mile away headed for the river?
How about I raise the stakes by mentioning about 15 minutes later that a screaming match erupts and that degenerates into a firefight with at least one submachine gun and multiple calibers of other small arms being fired wildly about 2 miles from your position.
How would you like sitting there using your engine block as a shield against possible stray rounds until the convoy heads back out into the hills.
I live in Arkansas no where near the border and yet all the above has happened to me.
A little research would show you that the Mexican/American border has all these type of incidents and even more.
None of these type of incidents are considered worthy of national news unless there is a national controversy or a large number of bodies are found and even then it's iffy about being picked up for even a sound bite or a one liner on the news channel scroll or webpage.
I don't hate the mexicans and as a farmer I understand probably far better than you or any other non-farmer on this group how critical cheap mexican labor is to to american agriculture.
I have yet to find an another American who isn't already a farmer willing to work for minimum wage and help me shovel manure or patch rices field with shovels.
Before you complain about minimum wage I'd like to point out that thanks to an overflow and a drought combined with the surge in fuel prices I've not personally made minimum wage after expenses in the last two years.
I'm all for allowing large numbers of legal immigrant workers, but the flood of illegal immigrants crossing our borders is a hazard that needs to be addressed and hopefully slowed and stopped.
The larger corperate farms and agri-businesses often economically abuse the flood of illegal immigrants they hire and it is unfare to the agri-businesses and farmers that are determined to follow the ethical, legal and moral path of hiring legal immigrant workers .
I resent having to compete against the agri-industries that are hiring the flood of illegal immigrants for less than minimum wage ignoring all the costly secondary benifits that I must pay legal immigrant workers.
howard melton
God bless
Y'know, this would be some impressive comedy fodder if it wasn't for the strong probability that these bigoted lackwits were either going to
a) blow away a group of unarmed people near the border for the crime of being ethnic without papers, or
b) run into a gang of coyotes, who'd massacre them on general principles.
/End Quote/
There is nothing of comedy to it.
And a lackwit is any person who makes assumptions and statements about an issue without checking.
These people are tresspassing on private property and while most are probably harmless a large percentage are not.
You have no concept of what it's like to have a large numbers of often shady and sometimes armed strangers using your property without permission for unpredictable and often illegal purposes.
While I live no where near the border I sadly have experience with people forcing themselves onto my farm land or my home place and putting it to their personal use.
Have you ever had to stare down a man wild on one drug he's still smoking, while going through withdrawel for another? A man who walks out of your parent's pasture covered in mud and screaming at the imaginary DEA in the woods.
(It took the local police two days to respond.)
It's no fun chasing cattle for hours because someone cut your fences or left the gates open.
Have you ever had Grave robbers come in to the indian mounds day or night digging 2 to 4 foot deep trenches that are can be several feet long trampling crops and leaving metal rods used for probing or metal tools that puncture or slash tractor tires.
(Tractor tires that are taller than you are and given the water ballast can weigh more than a small car.)
Variations of the above has happend multiple times.
Have you ever been driving your own property on your private equipment trails and suddenly come on a group of eight to ten men in two cars with a drug deal going down?
Have you ever been star gazing on your own property at 3 AM when a small convoy of vehicles crosses your land less than a 1/3 mile away headed for the river?
How about I raise the stakes by mentioning about 15 minutes later that a screaming match erupts and that degenerates into a firefight with at least one submachine gun and multiple calibers of other small arms being fired wildly about 2 miles from your position.
How would you like sitting there using your engine block as a shield against possible stray rounds until the convoy heads back out into the hills.
I live in Arkansas no where near the border and yet all the above has happened to me.
A little research would show you that the Mexican/American border has all these type of incidents and even more.
None of these type of incidents are considered worthy of national news unless there is a national controversy or a large number of bodies are found and even then it's iffy about being picked up for even a sound bite or a one liner on the news channel scroll or webpage.
I don't hate the mexicans and as a farmer I understand probably far better than you or any other non-farmer on this group how critical cheap mexican labor is to to american agriculture.
I have yet to find an another American who isn't already a farmer willing to work for minimum wage and help me shovel manure or patch rices field with shovels.
Before you complain about minimum wage I'd like to point out that thanks to an overflow and a drought combined with the surge in fuel prices I've not personally made minimum wage after expenses in the last two years.
I'm all for allowing large numbers of legal immigrant workers, but the flood of illegal immigrants crossing our borders is a hazard that needs to be addressed and hopefully slowed and stopped.
The larger corperate farms and agri-businesses often economically abuse the flood of illegal immigrants they hire and it is unfare to the agri-businesses and farmers that are determined to follow the ethical, legal and moral path of hiring legal immigrant workers .
I resent having to compete against the agri-industries that are hiring the flood of illegal immigrants for less than minimum wage ignoring all the costly secondary benifits that I must pay legal immigrant workers.
howard melton
God bless