I like this Idea any were already paying for them
Inmates to replace ousted illegal workers?
VINELAND, Colo. (AP) - Farmer Phil Prutch isn't sure about putting Colorado convicts to work in his fields this summer. But then again, he says, he doesn't have much of a choice.
Somebody has to pick the crops. Prutch has 15 acres of rotting peppers to show what happens if someone doesn't.
Faced with a severe shortage of migrant farmworkers that many blame on Colorado's crackdown on illegal immigrants, state officials are considering an experimental program that could have prisoners laboring on a half-dozen farms by May
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VINELAND, Colo. (AP) - Farmer Phil Prutch isn't sure about putting Colorado convicts to work in his fields this summer. But then again, he says, he doesn't have much of a choice.
Somebody has to pick the crops. Prutch has 15 acres of rotting peppers to show what happens if someone doesn't.
Faced with a severe shortage of migrant farmworkers that many blame on Colorado's crackdown on illegal immigrants, state officials are considering an experimental program that could have prisoners laboring on a half-dozen farms by May
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yeah that crackdown has really limited illegals here[:o)] 0 -
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It used to work fine years ago. Back before criminals had more rights than the law-abiding citizens. 0 -
What, did 20 MILLION of them go home, or did they all just get on welfare?
Why not put the convicts in the field?0 -
Picking crops is beneath a lot of them now, there are much better jobs to be had in construction these days. 0 -
that doesn't sound like a bad idea at all, why not get out and get some sun & fresh air! 0 -
or maybe, just maybe, start paying more than five bucks an hour. 0 -
How about putting poor Americans to work in those fields? 0
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