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Last Sunday, The New York Times published a
front-page article about the heartfelt need of California farmers for more
illegal aliens.
The first tip-off that heinous public policy
ideas were coming was that the Times introduced farmer Chuck Herrin, owner of a
farm-labor contracting company, as a "lifelong Republican." That's
Times-speak for "liberal."
Herrin admitted that he employs a lot of illegal
aliens and bitterly complained that they lived in fear of "Border Patrol
and deportations." (But, apparently, he doesn't live in fear of admitting
he's violating our immigration laws.)
Sorry that running a country inconveniences you,
Chuck.
He said his illegal alien employees deserved
amnesty because if "we keep them here and not do anything for them once
they get old, that's really extortion."
As the punch line goes, "What's this 'we,'
paleface?"
Taxpayers have been subsidizing Chuck Herrin's
underpayment of his illegal labor force for decades, with skyrocketing taxes to
pay for schools, roads, bridges, food stamps, health care and so on. Now Herrin
thinks "we" are supposed to support his illegal employees in their
old age, too.
Here's another idea: How about a federal law
mandating that employers of illegal aliens take responsibility for the people
they hire? Why is the taxpayer on the hook for illegal aliens' food, housing
and medical care, when Chuck Herrin got 100 percent of the profit from their
cheap labor?
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