Comments Thread For: Beltran: I'd Like To Meet Trump, Change His Opinion on Mexicans

[markther]

Mollie Tibbetts case exposes farms' worst-kept secret: hiring undocumented immigrants
August 24, 2018:

Dane Lang, a co-owner of Yarrabee Farms outside of Brooklyn, Iowa, stood outside his family farm this week and lamented that he had employed the undocumented immigrant charged in the murder of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts.

Then he was asked if any other non-U.S. citizens were among the 10 employees on the dairy farm.

"I don't think I can comment to that," Lang said.

That vague answer highlights the worst-kept secret in the agriculture business: roughly half of the nation's 1.4 million field workers (47 percent, or 685,000 workers) are undocumented immigrants. And that estimate, from the Labor Department, is a conservative one with labor experts citing far higher percentages...

Farmers across the country saw exactly what would happen if the government took an enforcement-only approach after Arizona passed an anti-immigration bill in 2010, leading a half-dozen states to follow suit. The laws, which included the requirement that all businesses use the E-Verify system, sent undocumented immigrants out of those states in droves.

Alabama's immigration law pushed up to 80,000 workers out of the state, according to a study conducted by the University of Alabama.

Georgia's immigration law led to more than $140 million in unharvested crops in 2011 because so many workers fled the state, according to a report commissioned by the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association.

The fleeing workers in Arizona resulted in an average 2 percent drop in the state's gross domestic product every year through 2015, according to an analysis conducted by The Wall Street Journal.

Finding American workers to make up for the shortfall was just as difficult. In Georgia, Gov. ********** Nathan Deal turned to people on probation in 2011, but most walked off the jobs almost immediately.

That same year in North Carolina, as 489,000 people were unemployed statewide, the North Carolina Growers Association listed 6,500 available jobs, but just 268 North Carolinians applied, 163 showed up for work, and only seven finished the season, according to a study by the Partnership for a New American Economy.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ts/1075320002/

America wake up! You can't keep biting the hand that literally feeds you!

I don’t bite the hand that feeds me. I pay my Mexican workers very well, well above minimum wage. They work hard!

[Robi13]

Trump and his Trumpaholics are such anti-immigrant xenophobes they'll never even admit the current broken system is responsible for causing bunches of farmers to go bankrupt or nearly so. They'll never admit it's a problem that Murcan teenage guys will NOT do that backbreaking work in 100 degrees + heat. Trump goes off on the Molly Tibbetts episode just to push his wacko xenophobic agenda. Yet never will acknowledge when the white guy kills his family.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...20-story.html#

If your agenda is hating ALL immigrants, which Trump and his Trumpaholics do, don't look for any respect from normal sane thinkers. Beltran is like most Mexicans... worked his butt off for years trying to do a good job and improve his and his family's life. He and all those like him have my respect 100%.

Im mexican and live in phoenix as well. I respect you for your take regarding my people. Dont get me wrong, Mexico, like ALL NATIONS, have criminals and bad people too. That scumbag that took Mollie tibbets life should rot in hel.l Any person, no matter their ethnicity, should pay for crimes that they commit. The problem is that Trump and his followers (which 90% if not more are racist) judge everyone from Mexico because of this one dumb idiot... And thats wrong. Most Mexicans like you stated, are hard working, considerate, honest people. The ones that are here to provide for their families, abide laws, and just are here making a living the right way should be allowed a fair shot, not pay because of something some other person of mexican decent did that they can't control.. The ones here b s'n and doing things wrong then yeah take them out. No issue with that.

[alexguiness]

I'm confused, Beltran is legal.

So why would Trump have an issue with him?

Its not Mexicans that Trump has issues with, its illegal immigrants.

Not that complicated at all.

[Robi13]

I don’t bite the hand that feeds me. I pay my Mexican workers very well, well above minimum wage. They work hard!

Thats nice of you, what work do you do?

[_original_]

Trump doesn't hate Mexicans/Mexican-Americans, it's just a lot of his inbred trailer trash fans that interpreted all of his demagogic nonsense into gospel to bash anybody what isn't white.

[_original_]

I'm confused, Beltran is legal.

So why would Trump have an issue with him?

Its not Mexicans that Trump has issues with, its illegal immigrants.

Not that complicated at all.

Trump doesn't, but his inbred fans do.

[boxingfan91]

I'm confused, Beltran is legal.

So why would Trump have an issue with him?

Its not Mexicans that Trump has issues with, its illegal immigrants.

Not that complicated at all.

Exactly, I swear people are ****ing ******. ILLEGAL immigrants not all immigrants.

[Lemonhead_Jeff]

Beltran would get locked-up for assault if he tried to 'change Trump's mind'.

Besides, you can't 'change' what does not exist in the first place.

[A.K]

I wish NBA players would do this communication is the best way to resolve issues. How is anything gonna get done if you can’t even meet lebron needs a private meeting with trump I bet you anything trump would change his tune instead he’s mad lebron and curry don’t want nothing to do with him.

[man down]

Trump doesnt dislike Mexican. lol.