Saturday, May 1, 2010

Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Boxer's EXPLOITATION OF ILLEGALS FOR THEIR BIG AG BIZ DONORS

BIG AG BIZ Exploitation of Illegals

The invasion of this nation by 38 million illegals was not by accident, but by INVITATION!

California’s two corrupt senators Barbara Boxer (running again) and Dianne Feinstein are both LA RAZA ENDORSED. Feinstein has publically stated that Americans were “stupid” for now wanting more illegals.

Boxer and Feinstein have twice worked on a massive “special amnesty” for 1.5 MILLION illegal farm workers. It’s all about paying miserable wages. These corrupt politicians pushed this “special amnesty” despite the fact that ONE-THIRD of all illegal farm workers END UP ON WELFARE. Many “stupid” Americans don’t think illegals can get welfare. In Sanctuary County of Los Angeles, which the Christian Science Monitor characterizes as “Mexican gang capital of America”, illegals collect $600 million per year in welfare. The State of California pays out more than $20 BILLION per year in social services to illegals.

“Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed. He urged the Senate Appropriations Committee to quickly approve a bill by Democratic Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein that would provide funds to help workers meet their housing costs.”

How expensive is that “cheap” Mexican labor?

Dianne Feinstein has long illegally hired illegals at her S.F. hotel. Her La Raza sister has long hired illegals at her $20 million dollar Napa winery. Barbara Boxer corrupt political life is financed by the special interests that benefit from depressed wages. THE THREE OF THESE S.F. BAY AREA POLITICIANS HAVE NEVER DONE ANYTHING ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT, THE EVER EXPANDING MEXICAN WELFARE AND PRISON SYSTEM, GANG CRIMES, OR ILLEGALS GETTING AMERICAN JOBS.

ILLEGAL FARM WORKERS, AND EXPLOITER OF ILLEGALS
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By Jessica Bernstein-Wax

Associated Press Writer / May 27, 2008
IRAPUATO, Mexico—Antonio Martinez used to pay smugglers thousands of dollars each year to sneak him into the United States to manage farm
crews. Now, the work comes to him.

more stories like thisSupervising lettuce pickers in central Mexico,
Martinez earns just half of the $1,100 a week he made in the U.S.
But the job has its advantages, including working without fear of
immigration raids.

Martinez, now a legal employee of U.S.-owned VegPacker de Mexico, is
exactly the kind of worker more American farm companies are seeking.
Many have moved their fields to Mexico, where they can find
qualified people, often with U.S. experience, who can't be deported.

"Because I never moved my family to the U.S., I was always alone
there," said Martinez, 45, who could never get a work permit, even
after 16 years in agriculture in California and Arizona. "When I got
the opportunity to be close to my family, doing similar work, I
didn't even have to think about it."

American companies now farm more than 45,000 acres of land in three
Mexican states, employing about 11,000 people, a 2007 survey by the
U.S. farm group Western Growers shows.

There were no earlier studies to document how much the acreage has
grown. But U.S. direct investment in Mexican agriculture, which
includes both American companies moving their operations to Mexico
and setting up Mexican partnerships, has swelled sevenfold to $60
million since 2000, Mexico's Economy Department told The Associated
Press.

Major corporations such as Archer Daniels Midland Co. and Bunge have
invested across Latin America for decades, particularly in countries
like Brazil, where agribusiness is booming.

Some small farmers have cultivated parts of Mexico for much longer,
seeking to secure year-round supplies of fruits and vegetables,
while taking advantage of cheap labor and proximity to the U.S.

But the latest move south has been fueled by something new, farmers
say: a way to continue to deliver cheap, fresh farm goods amid the
current U.S. political standoff over an estimated 12 million
undocumented immigrants, the majority from Mexico.

Recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids have targeted major
agricultural producers, including Del Monte Fresh Produce in
Portland, Oregon, and several large packing plants across the
nation -- scaring away immigrants and persuading many agricultural
employers to clean up their hiring practices.

"Employers can't find legal workers to replace this huge number of
illegal workers," said James Holt, an agricultural labor economist
and independent consultant based in Washington. "Their only option
is to go where the workers are."

Many of the growers, once based in California's Salinas Valley, are
also heading south to escape high land prices and water shortages.
Mexico is closer to eastern U.S. markets than California, they say.
Shipping times to Atlanta are a day shorter from Mexico's central
Guanajuato state.
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Reply to: see below
Date: 2009-05-15, 2:57PM PDT

A farm workers dusts a vineyard along Byron Highway near State Route 4 near Point of Timber in Brentwood, Calif., on Thursday May 14, 2009. For the fourth time this decade, Senator Diane Feinstein and other legislators today have introduced an "AgJobs" bill that, if enacted, would legalize more than one million undocumented farm workers, many of them in California. (Susan Tripp Pollard/Staff)


New Day, New Push to Legalize Farmworkers

By Matt O'Brien
Contra Costa Times
May 15, 2009

Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Thursday introduced a bill that would grant amnesty to up to 1.35 million farm workers who are working in the country illegally, many of them in California.
Nicknamed the AgJobs Bill, the measure has been proposed multiple times this decade, without success, by Feinstein and other legislators. Some supporters are hoping it might fare better under the Obama administration.

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ON FEINSTEIN’S EXPLOITATION OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND ILLEGALS FOR HER BIG AG BIZ DONORS – An American Sees & Speaks!


Date: 2008-05-20, 4:58AM
It's time to get some petitions circulating and get this FRAUD out of office! How disgusting of Dianne Feinstein to sneak an amnesty provision into the Iraq War Funding bill. She knows darn well that most senators will vote for funding for our troops. She thinks she can sneak this through by putting this provision in at the last moment - even though it has absolutely nothing to do with the Iraq war. Well it's time to stop playing all these games. If Ms. Feinstein can't operate in an honest and above-board fashion, she needs to find a different job! I'm a liberal who is fed up with her sneaky, conniving, and CORRUPT ways. IT'S TIME TO RECALL THIS B*TCH!!!!!


BUSH FEDERAL PROGRAM FOR WELFARE FOR ILLEGAL FARM WORKERS SO BIG AG BIZ CAN PAY MISERABLE WAGES!
IT’S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED!
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President Bush finally has granted some relief to the thousands of farmworkers who have been struggling to feed and house their families in the aftermath of the severe cold wave that struck California's farm areas in January. But the aid is far too little and comes far too late.
Bush's action on March 14 came after more than a month of urgent pleading by California's governor, its U.S. senators and many others. It will provide workers $17 million in food supplies and an extra six months of unemployment insurance payments.
But that's "simply not enough," as President Arturo Rodriguez of the United Farm Workers said. "Families are in a state of crisis. While food donations are critical, federal relief needs to apply toward mortgages and rental assistance and utility payments or thousands of families will lose their homes."
Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed. He urged the Senate Appropriations Committee to quickly approve a bill by Democratic Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein that would provide funds to help workers meet their housing costs.
The workers are victims of a devastating cold wave that plunged temperatures to the low 20s in an area ranging from the Mexican border up though central California. It destroyed at least half the citrus crop and did great harm to several other crops. Damage amounted to more than $1 billion.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture was quick to offer help to growers by designating 18 counties as ³disaster areas.² That made the 3,500 growers in those hardest hit locations eligible for low-interest loans of up to $500,000 each, providing they¹d lost at least 30 percent of their crop and could not get loans from private sources or, presumably, crop insurance payments.
In finally granting some relief to farmworkers in 12 of the counties, Bush granted more aid to growers -- $10 million to help them prune frost-damaged trees. There hadn¹t been much federal help, however, for the estimated 12,500 grower employees 5,000 harvesters and 7,500 packing house workers who were affected. Many have been jobless or working only part-time since January and aren¹t likely to find much work -- if any -- until the fall harvests begin in October.
In the meantime, they have little to live on. Farmworker¹s pay is so low few have savings to tide them over. Lacking steady work, they must rely on government aid and private charity to help them feed, clothe and house their families and cover other essentials.
Citrus worker Guadalupe Florez, a widow and mother of three cited by the United Farm Workers union as typical of those needing help, said she¹s ³started to look for work but there aren¹t any jobs. All we know is field work and there aren¹t any oranges to pick, sort or pack. I can get $118 every two weeks from unemployment benefits but it is not nearly enough to cover my $742 mortgage and the $250 in monthly gas and electric bills.²
California¹s state government has helped with unemployment insurance payments and nearly $6 million in grants to individual workers and county-run food banks.
Farmworkers can apply for that aid and other help such as health care and job counseling at ³one-stop centers² the state has set up in farming areas. Many of the needy workers are undocumented immigrants and thus not eligible for government aid, but non-governmental groups have moved in to help them as well as domestic workers.
Service clubs, churches and others have contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to food banks, and utility companies have reduced their rates in some farming areas. The United Farm Workers has launched a major campaign to spread word of the workers¹ plight throughout the country, is widely soliciting donations of food and money, and is helping communities organize to take effective action. The UFW calculates that $32.5 million will be needed just to cover the workers¹ basic living costs -- $500 a month for at least 10 months for 6,500 households.
But the state and the UFW and other private groups can¹t possibly meet the enormous need by themselves. The federal government must provide much more than Bush has authorized.

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From the Los Angeles Times
Certainly the farmworkers deserve that. As the San Francisco Chronicle noted, "they are part of an economically marginal population that helps drive the state¹s economy, and allows consumers to buy fruit and vegetables at an enviably low cost.²
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IT’S ALWAYS ABOUT SERVICING THE SPECIAL INTERESTS
Farm bill keeping subsidies is OKd in Senate
Taxpayer groups, environmentalists and doctors have all pledged to try to change the legislation, for different reasons. Bush has threatened a veto.
By Nicole Gaouette
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

December 15, 2007

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Friday approved a farm bill that would continue to funnel billions of dollars in subsidies to wealthy landowners and farmers who are earning record-breaking prices for their crops, rebuffing a concerted campaign by some senators to shift money to conservation, nutrition and deficit reduction.

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