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• Alabama farmers look to replace migrants with prisoners

  Wed Dec 7, 2011
  • btw - you may want to do a "recheck status" on that "housing boon"! You may want to recheck your reading skills, I state clearly in my post, "During the housing boom many of these jobs were taken by illegals."

• Alabama farmers look to replace migrants with prisoners

  Wed Dec 7, 2011
  • let's see - "vast majority + more then half"....obviously none of the illegals are taking any of the high paying, lucrative jobs in the "math field"! Yeah, that's outsource to India and China, another problem altogether.

• Alabama farmers look to replace migrants with prisoners

  Wed Dec 7, 2011
  • You're serious with that? For low collar crimes? I'm not talking about murderers and rapists, people who wouldn't even qualify for this anyways.

• Alabama farmers look to replace migrants with prisoners

  Wed Dec 7, 2011
  • Oh please...every prison in America has these types of programs and has since the beginning of time...there is no such deterent. Probably because they are doing CAKE work. Lets see them do some work that "citizens don't want to do" according to the left.

• Alabama farmers look to replace migrants with prisoners

  Wed Dec 7, 2011
  • You have to get qualified for the latter and I doubt the trade schools are as inclined as farmers are to look the other way as far as immigration status goes.

• Alabama farmers look to replace migrants with prisoners

  Wed Dec 7, 2011
  • That's exactly my point. They certainly weren't paying the illegals minimum wage and they certainly won't pay the prisoners what they were paying the illegals.

• Alabama farmers look to replace migrants with prisoners

  Wed Dec 7, 2011
  • Are we ready to substitute hard working Mexicans with violent criminals? Right, they are going to let VIOLENT criminals out to do work. And you get this from where? Obviously NOT reading...

• Alabama farmers look to replace migrants with prisoners

  Wed Dec 7, 2011
  • So it's OK that for decades these "farmers" knowingly broke the law by hiring illegals...and should've been penalized for it...and now that the law's been changed...they get even cheaper labor and make greater profits at the expense of the taxpayers?

• Alabama farmers look to replace migrants with prisoners

  Wed Dec 7, 2011
  • And these prisoners should be getting minimum wage for their work FROM THE FARMERS and a portion of that goes back to the prison to offset tax payer contribution and a portion to the prisoner when they are released.

• Alabama farmers look to replace migrants with prisoners

  Wed Dec 7, 2011
  • So how is the GOP motto : get rid of the illegal immigrants and the jobs will be taken by "willing American workers" working out? Illegals ARE taking jobs that "willing American workers" will take. See: 1) Electrician 2) Carpenter 3) Plumber 4) Fast Food (McD's, etc).