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And votes. To hell with the long range effects.

Also, illegals cannot unionize.

Cesar Chavez

Today the Farm Workers Union will happily accept illegal workers because they like collecting dues.

I thought Cesar Chavez was anti illegal immigrant

Six of the seven people charged in the stabbing death of a man in Maryland in July have been identified by federal officials as being part of the MS-13 gang and in the country illegally, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The Baltimore County Police Department announced Tuesday that seven suspects, including a 16-year-old charged as an adult, were charged with killing 21-year-old Daniel Alejandro Alvarado Cuellar. ...

Of the seven suspects, six are in the U.S. illegally, the ICE spokeswoman added. Of the six illegal immigrant suspects, who were not named, five are Salvadoran and one is Mexican, ICE said.

Quigley says

Cesar Chavez

Born in Yuma AZ

BURNETT: Right. Well, first of all, the overall deportations went down because fewer people, mainly from Latin America, were trying to cross the southwest border. They call it the Trump effect. So we're talking about the other 10 percent here.

And I think there are two things that are happening for the jump in deportations. First, so-called recalcitrant countries that used to refuse to accept deportees from the U.S. are now repatriating them. And the Trump administration is proud of this. And they feel like it's an untold story that they made these agreements with these countries.

So we're seeing big increases of deportees to places like Somalia, Guinea, Cuba, Bangladesh, Iraq, Afghanistan. For instance, with Iraq, the administration took it off the travel ban list in return for the country agreeing to repatriate its people. And the second thing I think that's going on is ICE agents are just more aggressive, as we've reported all last year.

The number of immigrants without criminal records arrested or deported by federal agents in Michigan and Ohio soared over the past year as the administration of President Donald Trump toughened immigration enforcement, according to statistics reviewed by the Free Press.

The data confirm what local immigrants and advocates say they've been seeing as more immigrants are detained and deported by agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Border Patrol (USBP), two agencies with the Department of Homeland Security.

clambo says

Today the Farm Workers Union will happily accept illegal workers because they like collecting dues.

Any illegal who talked to a union would be replaced by another illegal.

It takes a certain nimbleness to pick a strawberry or a salad. While crops like wheat and potatoes have been harvested mechanically for decades, many fruits and vegetables have proved resistant to automation. They are too easily bruised, or too hard for heavy farm machinery to locate.

But recently, technological developments and advances in machine learning have led to successful trials of more sensitive and dexterous robots, which use cameras and artificial intelligence to locate ripe fruit and handle it with care and precision.
Developed by engineers at the University of Cambridge, the Vegebot is the first robot that can identify and harvest iceberg lettuce — bringing hope to farmers that one of the most demanding crops for human pickers could finally be automated.
First, a camera scans the lettuce and, with the help of a machine learning algorithm trained on more than a thousand lettuce images, decides if it is ready for harvest. Then a second camera guides the picking cage on top of the plant without crushing it. Sensors feel when it is in the right position, and compressed air drives a blade through the stalk at a high force to get a clean cut.

After ICE raided them and took away the majority of their labor, they were forced to hire local citizens, mostly blacks, at about twice the wages they were paying illegals.