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Tancredo sends head of lettuce to Chertoff | |
2007-06-28 | |
Tancredo says he disagrees with recent comments Chertoff made that suggested if the immigration bill fails, the agricultural industry will suffer. To prove his point he is sending Chertoff a head of lettuce, a fruit basket, and a card saying, “much, much more where this comes from.” “The administration has taken hyperbole to a whole new level this time,” Tancredo said in a statement. “They are now trying to convince the public that without amnesty, the American people are going to starve?” “The agriculture industry and the free market has managed to keep producing through floods, droughts, and $3.00 per gallon gas,” Tancredo added, “I doubt very seriously that a nominal increase in labor costs is going to be the end of lettuce as we know it.” In a July 14 speech before the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Chertoff said, “Without reform that brings workers in legitimately, that makes it efficient for businesses, including agricultural businesses, to hire those workers efficiently, and without some kind of a mechanism to promote agriculture and to deal with the current illegal work force, we’re going to put people like you and those you represent in a terrible bind — they’re either going to have to break the law, which is a bad thing to do, or they’re going to have to shut down their farms, which is a bad thing to do, or what’s going to wind up happening is those farms are going to Mexico and Canada.” | |
Posted by:lotp |
#5 hilarious tu3031. I thought Chertoff was Homeland Sec Chief? Somebody school me on why he's giving speeches on agricultural economics etc? (which from reading his speech he obviously has no clue what he's talking about) Shouldn't he be worried about poison food supplies and such, not how much the price of lima beans are? |
Posted by: Broadhead6 2007-06-28 14:33 |
#4 or whatÂ’s going to wind up happening is those farms are going to Mexico and Canada How do you move a farm? |
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-06-28 11:34 |
#3 If Chertoff wants to see a head of lettuce he just has to look in the mirror. |
Posted by: tu3031 2007-06-28 10:59 |
#2 What crap! UC Davis released a study showing that if farm wages went up 40%, the increase in the cost of produce that normally goes for $1 would be two to three cents. We don't need a slave underclass in this country that badly, Mr Chertoff. |
Posted by: Swamp Blondie 2007-06-28 08:04 |
#1 Chertoff, being the political hack that he is, will no doubt ignore this in keeping with his policy of 'see no evil'. |
Posted by: Phinater Thraviger 2007-06-28 00:44 |