Ghost Towns Fallacy - Immigration Law Enforcement Will not Cause This
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Wanting to frame the immigration debate, the raids in Georgia on illegal immigrants are scaring the illegal immigrants from essentially Latin American towns. The town of Stillmore, Georgia has been housing workers at a local poultry plant has been raided during a statewide enforcement and arresting
This Georgia community of about 1,000 people has become little more than a ghost town since Sept. 1, when federal agents began rounding up illegal immigrants.
The sweep has had the unintended effect of underscoring just how vital the illegal immigrants were to the local economy.
More than 120 illegal immigrants have been loaded onto buses bound for immigration courts in Atlanta, 189 miles away. Hundreds more fled Emanuel County. Residents say many scattered into the woods, camping out for days. ‘
So it sounds so horrible, right? Well people are already moving into the town because the local poultry plant has raised the its pay rate a dollar. Amazing what enforcing the law and creating a level playing field between the honest and dishonest employers will do.
The poultry plant has limped along with half its normal workforce. Crider increased its starting wages by $1 an hour to help recruit new workers.
Stacie Bell, 23, started work canning chicken at Crider a week ago. She said the pay, $7.75 an hour, led her to leave her $5.60-an-hour job as a Wal-Mart cashier in nearby Statesboro. Still, Bell said she felt bad about the raids.
“If they knew eventually that they were going to have to do that, they should have never let them come over here,” she said. via AOL News.
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Comment by American Grandma on 21 September 2006:
It’s about time! This news made my day.
Now if only other states would crack down, namely California.
Wer’e trying.
Comment by Tony Herrera on 23 September 2006:
The poultry plant raised wages by 1 dollar an hour, in an effort of recruiting workers, yet despite the pay increase it has not managed to replace half of its work force.
Fact is Stillmore, GA had grown dependent on the paychecks of Mexican workers who originally came for seasonal farm labor, picking the area’s famous Vidalia onions. Many of those migrant workers eventually settled in the area and took jobs at the Crider plant, which at one time had a workforce of about 900 employees.
If people are in fact moving into the town because the local poultry plant has raised the its pay rate a dollar, what is the actual amount of people who have moved into town?
-Tony Herrera
Comment by borderwinds on 27 September 2006:
Amen, Tony. I agree. These people just talk the victory talk because things seem to be going their way. They try to make up the void by filling it up with praises, but they really have nothing positive to say. I’m sure those American’s who were affected by the raids knew what these people need to know. You don’t know what you have until you lose it and towns around America are finding out the hardway. I just wish immigrants had no reason to come to America and receive this kind of treatment. That way when these American fools find out what they are getting into and they start begging for help from the immigrants, the immigrants will give them the same kind of treatment and say “If you knew that eventually you were going to need us, why’d you kick us out?”
Comment by mary on 6 October 2006:
I think it about time, the the immigrants are stoped, where is there integrity, when they come over to our county the wrong way, if we did that to there county they have us out in a hurry, they dont want anyone free loading of there goverment, and social progrems. if there own county leaders done right to there own people this would not be happening to us, where is the media interveiwing them and asking them why are there people running from there county, there is something very wrong, when other countys allow there born citizens to leave in droves, it should be there responsiblity to pay for them to be returned, or we should fine those countys for allowing there people to cross over to our county, or at least keep the money that they send back to there family’s. This should slow the tide of people comming over to us, and to keep there tax returns money to use on our people. etc. who is not doing the work they should be doing, if the democrats and the republican done there job this would not be taking place. but they too are wasting the tax payers money bye pointing fingers at one enother, this is going on to long, when will it stop, and the Americans truly belive in real policy work, all there is anymore is arguing all the time, when will this stop,
Comment by alma diaz on 22 April 2008:
I am so opposed to the fact how we are all just being discriminated for wanting to find a good job and make some sort of salary to send back to our family members in our country nobody knows what we go through nobody knows how we feel i understand that some of us yea make mistakes and make the rest look bad but its never good to judge a book by its cover and you know when american people go to mexico or guatemala or any other country for a vacation or to visit we dont say a single thing they are received with open arms so i dont really understand why 2 out 4 people on top of me are making these rude comments when you dont even know the half of it was it such a crime being born in another country because thats all it is!