I grew up in farm country, and it was an open secret that all of the so-called "conservative" farmers hired tons of illegals to work their farms. In middle school I got in an argument about it with a friend whose dad was a farmer. "Respect the law!" he said. "But don't you hire a bunch of illegal labor?" I replied. "Yeah but we need that otherwise we'd go out of business."
For many years the left and right played a variant of "good cop/bad cop" on the matter where the right would bring them in to work, the "populist" left would pretend to object, and then the leftist judges would make sure you couldn't deport them or deny them benefits.
As an aside, people have been talking about "10 million illegal aliens in this country" as long as I've been alive. If it was 10x that it wouldn't surprise me.
5 million a year since 1992 would be 170 million. If instead, you assume a linear increase over the same duration it would be half that, which gives an estimate of 85 million illegals. That agrees with the fact that entire towns in the southeast have been replaced with latinos. All it takes is one Swanson's or Tyson's coming in.
I grew up in farm country, and it was an open secret that all of the so-called "conservative" farmers hired tons of illegals to work their farms. In middle school I got in an argument about it with a friend whose dad was a farmer. "Respect the law!" he said. "But don't you hire a bunch of illegal labor?" I replied. "Yeah but we need that otherwise we'd go out of business."
For many years the left and right played a variant of "good cop/bad cop" on the matter where the right would bring them in to work, the "populist" left would pretend to object, and then the leftist judges would make sure you couldn't deport them or deny them benefits.
As an aside, people have been talking about "10 million illegal aliens in this country" as long as I've been alive. If it was 10x that it wouldn't surprise me.
5 million a year since 1992 would be 170 million. If instead, you assume a linear increase over the same duration it would be half that, which gives an estimate of 85 million illegals. That agrees with the fact that entire towns in the southeast have been replaced with latinos. All it takes is one Swanson's or Tyson's coming in.