mainstreaming slave labor

[mxmendo]

We'll need someone to do the work after we round up all the brown people...<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/03/30/national/w141912S10.DTL">www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ar...912S10.DTL</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>House conservatives criticized President Bush, accused the Senate of fouling the air, said prisoners rather than illegal farm workers should pick America's crops and denounced the use of Mexican flags by protesters Thursday in a vehement attack on legislation to liberalize U.S. immigration laws.<br><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"I say let the prisoners pick the fruits," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, one of more than a dozen Republicans who took turns condemning a Senate bill that offers an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants an opportunity for citizenship.<br><br><br>"Anybody that votes for an amnesty bill deserves to be branded with a scarlet letter A," said Rep. Steve King of Iowa, referring to a guest worker provision in the Senate measure.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[marykmusic]

Prisoners already perform slave labor, for as little as 50 cents per hour. And often they are on prison farms, where food and other crops are grown; Florence, AZ has alfalfa hay for sale that it grown and harvested by prisoners.<br><br>...And as long as we're on the subject...<br><br>The U.S. has 5% of the world's population, but 25% of the world's prisoners. --MaryK <p></p><i></i>