And now the food we eat is going to cost more

This is for all of those who send emails to all of their anti immigrant and hate mongering friends....tell them to get ready to get their big fat wallets out to pay more for food and milk.

Even the farmers and ranchers are now complaining....about the need for undocumented workers....so they can keep their prices DOWN. They now want "their immigrants" to do the work for them.


Who would have thought America would be brought to her knees by hate, racism, and emotionalism of fear and chaos.

It is happening....thanks to all of the people who seem so high and morally right.

Tell them to continue sending in petitions, emails, faxes, and phone calls....and tell their Congress people to get these "illegals out of our country....like most did when the legislation in Congress was being considered....." Ask them to do it for their hate fix.

Now with high gasoline prices hitting everyone in the checkbook....add food and milk products....and may we all have a happy day! We are going to pay for it.

Oh by the way, we better get all those lazy Americans who said they wanted to work out of bed....because there is going to be plenty of it around.

Let's send this around the world and make sure everyone knows....just add it to your friend's email lists that they use to send anti immigrant emails. The more who know, the better.

And continue to live your life in denial.



Fresno Bee

Ag industry blasts crackdown
'Disaster' predicted from rules targeting illegal workers.
By Bethany Clough / The Fresno Bee
08/14/07 05:35:26

Thousands of dead milk cows and crops rotting in the fields could be the result of new U.S. Department of Homeland Security rules, farmers said Monday.

More than 70 farmers, labor contractors and food processors angrily detailed what could happen under new rules announced Friday that crack down on employers who hire illegal workers.

An estimated 70% of workers in the state's $32 billion agriculture industry are in the country illegally.

"It's going to be disaster," said Ralph Pistoresi, who farms more than 5,000 acres of grapes, olives and pistachios from Merced to Kern counties. "If there's no one to do the work, it's not going to get done."

Starting next month, the federal government will send letters to employers whose workers submit Social Security numbers that don't match their names. If employers don't prove the worker is legal within the allotted time -- 90 days -- they must fire the employee.

Employers can be fined up to $10,000 per worker.

The construction, janitorial, landscaping, hotel and restaurant industries also are expected to be affected.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said they were forced to enact such penalties after Congress did not pass an immigration-reform bill.

"We had hoped that immigration reform on a comprehensive basis would give us a much wider set of tools; we don't have that," Chertoff said during a news conference last week. "But until the laws change, we are enforcing the laws as they are to the utmost of our ability, using every tool that we have in the toolbox."

But Monday afternoon, farmers gathered at the Fresno County Farm Bureau office in Fresno and vented about the worst-case scenarios of firing a large percentage of their workers. Among the effects mentioned:

Fruits and vegetables will go unpicked.

Thousands of dairy cows will die.

Legal workers in packinghouses will be laid off because packinghouses close down due to lack of product to process.

Foreign competitors' products will take over American grocery shelves and hurt American farmers as buyers look for other sources of produce.

Other businesses across the central San Joaquin Valley will suffer as out-of-work farmworkers stop spending money.

Manuel Cunha Jr., president of Nisei Farmers League, encouraged farmers to flood their federal, state and local representatives with phone calls, faxes and e-mails. He called for farmers to support a failed Senate immigration bill, which included a way for illegal immigrants to become citizens.

"You flat out tell them you want Ag Jobs done now," he said. The bill was defeated, with opponents saying it would reward lawbreakers.

Representatives from the offices of Rep. Jim Costa, D-Fresno, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., also attended the meeting and encouraged farmers to contact their elected representatives.

Barry Bedwell, president of the California Grape & Tree Fruit League, said farmers don't want to be on the wrong side of the law.

"We've always wanted a legal work force but haven't had the tools to do that," he said.

Sweeping God's People to Jail

A couple of years ago now, I predicted how the state would look to round up "undocumented immigrants" on our highways. Now the Colorado State Patrol in fact conducted "their first sweep of I-70" to find "undocumented immigrants."

The criteria the Patrol uses is a traffic violation has to occur before they can pull a car over. Once that is done, they can arrest all the people in the car if they are undocumented immigrants.

In one case mentioned in the following news story, the car was broken down along the highway when the State Patrol drove up to "provide assistance." All the passengers in that car were detained and shipped to the Aurora detention center.

I still predict the times will become more difficult for many of the people who attend our churches, God fearing and faithful people. I feel more strongly than ever, that the church is still not equipped on how to respond or handle these situations.

With that thought in mind, some churches on the western slope could be forced to close or operate in less than open locations for fear of the State Patrol waiting to check the status of "large groups of Hispanic people gathering" for church services, or again, as I have mentioned before, those van loads of people going to "retreat" are open game for the new Colorado State Patrol.

I can assure you that just because "comprehensive immigration reform" did not pass, the problem did not go away, it only got bigger.

In all sincerity, it now that we should be making calls to the Governor's Office and State Legislators deploring the open "game status" by the Colorado State Patrol on people on their way to church. Remember this was "their first sweep" and they arrested 48, more to come I am sure.

Here is the story that appeared in The Denver Post regarding the "sweep."

Denver & the West
48 arrested in I-70 patrol sweep
ICE-deputized troopers round up suspected illegal immigrants
By Kirk Mitchell Denver Post Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 08/01/2007 01:11:49 AM MDT

Recently trained Colorado troopers arrested 48 suspected illegal immigrants in a sweep along Interstate 70 on Tuesday near the Eisenhower Tunnel, officials said.
"That's a good big number for us," said Jeff Copp, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement district chief based in Denver.
It was the first roundup by Colorado State Patrol officers deputized by ICE to process suspected illegal immigrants.
In the joint operation between ICE and the State Patrol, three cars were stopped for traffic violations and a fourth was stranded beside the road, said state Master Trooper Ron Watkins.
All of the immigrants who were detained were from Mexico, ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok said. An infant who is a U.S. citizen was with one family of illegal immigrants, Rusnok said. The baby was to return to Mexico on Tuesday, he said.
The cars had as many as 15 people inside, Rusnok said.
State troopers began at 9 a.m. to look for possible illegal immigrants on I-70 between the Eisenhower Tunnel and Vail Pass.
Troopers could stop cars only for traffic violations, Watkins said. When they suspected that occupants of the cars might be illegal immigrants, they investigated further.
The suspected illegal immigrants will be taken to an Aurora detention center before they are deported to their home countries, Copp said.
The Colorado State Patrol unit of about 25 troopers completed training at the beginning of July, Watkins said.
They were trained by federal agents to operate under the authority of ICE, Copp said. The training is part of a national program to fight illegal immigration.

Staff writer Kirk Mitchell can be reached at 303-954-1206 or kmitchell@denverpost.com.