Comment: H-2A does not supply dairy farmers because it is for temporary seasonal workers only, dairy management is not seasonal. Senator Lehey continues to work to get dairy included, but to no avail so far.

Question: what do you propose as the alternative if H-2A is “blasted away?”

Overall— good commentary and a productive start to a critically important discussion. Your comments about how badly broken the H-2A system is are on target— even understated. The program is horribly broken and one cannot help to think that the Department of Labor and other agencies involved WANT it to fail.

Regards,
Frank Gasperini
Executive Vice President
National Council of Agricultural Employers

sheila acrter:

well since your a lawyer is there anything we all can do to get this president out now or make him deal with this problem? he’s not listening and he’s done so much damage already.

The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on
United States Taxpayers
http://www.fairus.org/site/DocServer/USCostStudy_2010.pdf?docID=4921

It is time to end this game of politics and corruption with serious considerations, here are mine;

Obama’s Best Bet on Immigration

In 2008 in the middle of the night behind closed doors Nancy Pelosi used a war supplement bill to give protected status to 1.35 million illegal agriculture workers who had already been working here in the US for 45 months and their extended families which amounted to over 3 million (then) illegal’s. That is more people than is needed across the states to work fields.

Our borders are not secure and citizens of all states are so angry at the law suit filed against Arizona, that in 4 days people from all 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico, have donated over $500k to help the Arizona legal defence. There are millions of illegal aliens which can prove their illegal residency here for eight or nine years minimum, and most have a form of documentation with a pay stub, rent receipt, an anchor expense, CHIP enrolment (something). Starting in 2007 campaign innuendoes broke the record with the highest influx of border jumper’s in any given presidential election cycle. President Obama said the immigration rules are “unenforceable” for local law, I wonder if this is because of the vast numbers of illegal’s and drug cartels spread throughout our nation?

Since this administration is so sure there are only 12 million illegal aliens in the US, and Ellis Island has been updated, and much the same is in Florida to document immigrants. Consider: Absolutely NO social security or voting rights until becoming a legal English speaking citizen for 10 years to the date of meeting the crime restitution requirements. Once the twelve million numbers of illegals is reached (documented) DEPORT the other 16 million left over.

The unemployment rate for veterans rose in June, to 11.5 percent for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. Hire some of them to work with their local law serving the people of their own hometowns and surrounding communities. These veterans already have government run VA healthcare for five years running, and could save struggling towns short on law enforcement to actually save local tax monies (feds employ vets), while also saving local tax funds used toward the healthcare insurance for local law enforcement. There are more than enough already trained unemployed veterans to help deport all 28 million illegal border jumpers.

Two other presidents already enforced immigration laws to employ war vets, this would be the third time, and because it is for national security this time will be the charm. This time we permanently secure our borders. President Obama recently said “Our borders are just too vast for us to be able to solve the problem only with fences and border patrols,” and he said “It won’t work.” Seems the old adage is still working fine because Mr. Obama’s best bet is to hire the vets.

Here in corrupt Luzerne County Pa. our unemployment rate is 10.6% with illegal border jumper’s still employed. Our schools are overcrowded and broke and the County reassessed our property taxes doubling the tax cost for property & school taxes. One of three sewer bills just tripled even for elderly low income homeowners living on $12,000 a year social security, not even a pitiful COLA increase. Some elderly homeowner’s have been surviving on SSI of only $6000 a year, and Arizona’s Sheriff Arpaio’s tent city provides a better quality of life for illegal aliens than some disabled citizens’ experience daily living on cat food and cereal. And I know for a fact the illegal aliens in Tent City receive better healthcare than many veterans receive nationwide.

I read the other day that “at least the new amnesty program will bring an additional $1.2 trillion in tax revenue…. “. To that I had to reply; it is very good to know the feds will have the money for the settlement costs of the Class Action Lawsuit being filed by citizen homeowner’s nationwide living in the area’s PRESENTLY invaded by illegal aliens. Let the feds buy up our homes and pay to relocate us or deport them all. Don’t think it would take a rocket scientist to figure out which way is cheaper now does it?