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   From: sid9@   
      
   "Shania Sanders"  wrote in message   
   news:jnl61e$38v$6@wieslauf.sub.de...   
   > On 04/29/2012 09:22 PM, Sid9 wrote:   
   >>   
   >> "Tom Shoemaker"  wrote in message   
   >> news:WPCGZRLX41028.5573611111@reece.net.au...   
   >>> It was a nice day in Imperial County, California. The Border   
   >>> Patrol was busy keeping the Mexicans out and doing a great job   
   >>> of it in spite of the Democrats.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Liar.   
   >>   
   >> The facts:   
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   >>   
   >> 9/20/2011   
   >>   
   >> WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he backs immigration reform,   
   >   
   > He also says he was born in Hawaii, and that he knows who his father is.   
   >> announcing last month an initiative to ease deportation policies, but he   
   >> has sent home more than 1 million illegal immigrants in 2 1/2 years — on   
   >> pace to deport more in one term than George W. Bush did in two.   
   >   
   > But has released 11 million Mexican criminals instead of deporting them   
   > because he wants them to vote. No IDs needed thanks to fellow Muslim Eric   
   > Holdere.   
   >>   
   >> The Obama administration had deported about 1.06 million as of Sept. 12,   
   >> against 1.57 million in Bush's two full presidential terms.   
   >   
   > But Obama lets in anyone that can hop, skip, jump or dance across the   
   > border.   
   >>   
   >> This seeming contradiction between rhetoric and reality is a key element   
   >> of debate over U.S. immigration policy, and stakes are high for 2012's   
   >> presidential election as Obama faces criticism from both conservatives   
   >> and liberals.   
   >>   
   > You are simply too sweet for Obama. He gives you numbers, but you don't   
   > know what they mean. Oh, and the economy is recovering.....Bwaaahahhhhhhh.   
   > you asshole..   
   >   
      
      
   Immigration Stalls as Opportunities Wane on U.S.-Mexican Border   
    By James Nash - Apr 30, 2012 12:01 AM ET   
      
   As the economy boomed in the mid- 2000s, many immigrants in southern   
   California’s border country spurned field work in favor of construction and   
   food-service jobs. Then they stopped coming to U.S. farms altogether.   
      
   So Larry Cox, who farms lettuce, cantaloupes and onions on 3,500 acres in   
   Imperial County, California, shifted more production south of the border,   
   where the Mexicali Valley offers a plentiful agricultural workforce, Cox,   
   53, said in an interview.   
      
   Weakened U.S. job and housing construction markets, heightened border   
   enforcement, a rise in deportations and the dangers associated with illegal   
   crossings contributed to the decline in immigration, according to the Pew   
   report. Photographer: Sam Hodgson/Bloomberg   
      
    April 30 (Bloomberg) -- Hildy Carrillo, executive director of the Calexico   
   Chamber of Commerce in Calexico, California, talks with Bloomberg's James   
   Nash about immigration from Mexico to the United States. An April 24 report   
   by the Pew Hispanic Center concluded that the flow of migrants came to a   
   "standstill" between 2005 and 2010, and may have even reversed. (Source:   
   Bloomberg)   
   .   
   States in the southern and southwestern U.S. have passed immigration   
   crackdowns, and the Supreme Court signaled last week it might be prepared to   
   support an Arizona law requiring police to check the status of anyone they   
   suspect is in the country illegally. Yet rather than an invasion, Cox’s   
   experience reflects an April 24 report by the Pew Hispanic Center, which   
   concluded that the flow of migrants came to a “standstill” between 2005 and   
   2010, and may even have reversed.   
      
   “There’s been a huge migration of skilled agricultural labor into Mexico,”   
   Cox said. “There is a creeping up of the average age of our workforce. We’re   
   not getting replacements.”   
      
   Without new immigrants, agricultural operations from the desert region   
   straddling the border to the slaughterhouses of High Plains states such as   
   Nebraska and Iowa face labor shortages. Farmers got some relief when the   
   real-estate crash drove out-of-work roofers, builders and contractors back   
   to lower-paying jobs as field hands, Cox and others say. An uptick in   
   construction could again leave them shorthanded.   
      
   ‘More Challenging’   
      
   “Harvesting Vidalia onions in Georgia becomes more challenging when you don’t   
   have labor,” U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss, a Georgia Republican, said at a   
   Senate Agriculture Committee hearing April 26. “Many of these are jobs that   
   frankly, Americans don’t want to do.”   
      
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