Thanks for combining facts and figures with your own personal story; very interesting and well written. I hope you’ve watched La Frontera on PBS. It’s Pati Jinich’s look at our long border with Mexico and the personal stories of the people and businesses that hum along every day.
Color me impressed. Thank you, Michael. Trump and Miller and Bannon appreciate nothing but themselves. I’ve begun to believe that the very wealthy and their minions should never be placed in charge of anything at all. They don’t seem to see the value in other creatures of the planet. Everything seems to be here for their pleasure or their wealth. “For want of a nail a shoe was lost ….’
Thank you for reading, Radha. I truly believe the likes of Trump and Miller and those who look up to them lead miserable lives. By thinking only of themselves, they live incomplete lives, missing out on the love found among all our fellow beings.
COULD YOU BE A MIGRANT FARMWORKER HARVESTING PRODUCE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ? They used to have onion fields in the town next to mine that had immigrant workers every year......one year maybe 17 or 18? I applied and was hired....I think pay was per bushel or bag or #s....I think I was only person not an immigrant transient.....some of those people were so fast....and I don't know child labor laws but there were children working and infants hanging around watching and being watched...
I don't recall if I lasted a week or 2 ....I can't remember right off....I don't think I worked the whole harvest....then for me back to whatever.....for them....off to some other parts of the country to harvest whatever was next....
People deserve respect and decent pay!
Sadly those onion fields are paved over with the Neverending local government promoted Sprawl Development.....
I know. Personally. I come from a family of immigrants, some undocumented. The courage they showed escaping fascism in the 40s and willingness to take hard, dirty jobs Americans didn’t want, allowed me to enjoy the privileges of US citizenship.
Thank you so much, Evelina. They really are decent people who only want opportunity and a fair shake. But scoundrels like Trump play on the fears some people have of the others. They do it only for personal gain.
Thanks so much for posting this. La Fontera was great. Not one of the 69 million maga people watch PBS (part of the reason they are so mis-informed). How to get this message to them?
I think we have to take it upon ourselves to do whatever we can to get the truth out, that immigrants are a net benefit to our country and Trump is the menace.
Thank you. But as usual, I want more. I want everyone who can make a difference to know these statistics. I want this kind of information to matter and it’s a gut punch to know that it may not.
So if 11 million people get treated like chattel slavery under some creepy white supremacist goon, installed to replace a civil servant … It’s basically just mass murder committed by a mental patient who escaped the looney bin and slithered into power.
Thank you so much for the restack!
Of course! I look forward to reading more of your writing - you're good...
Great read! Thought I was reading a John Steinbeck short story! Never talk negatively about immigrants with your mouth full!!
Thanks for the compliment, Russ. I know those people and we all should be proud to call them neighbors and friends.
Thanks for combining facts and figures with your own personal story; very interesting and well written. I hope you’ve watched La Frontera on PBS. It’s Pati Jinich’s look at our long border with Mexico and the personal stories of the people and businesses that hum along every day.
Thanks for reading. I love that La Frontera and others are out there exposing Trump’s lies about immigrants and the border.
Color me impressed. Thank you, Michael. Trump and Miller and Bannon appreciate nothing but themselves. I’ve begun to believe that the very wealthy and their minions should never be placed in charge of anything at all. They don’t seem to see the value in other creatures of the planet. Everything seems to be here for their pleasure or their wealth. “For want of a nail a shoe was lost ….’
Thank you for reading, Radha. I truly believe the likes of Trump and Miller and those who look up to them lead miserable lives. By thinking only of themselves, they live incomplete lives, missing out on the love found among all our fellow beings.
COULD YOU BE A MIGRANT FARMWORKER HARVESTING PRODUCE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ? They used to have onion fields in the town next to mine that had immigrant workers every year......one year maybe 17 or 18? I applied and was hired....I think pay was per bushel or bag or #s....I think I was only person not an immigrant transient.....some of those people were so fast....and I don't know child labor laws but there were children working and infants hanging around watching and being watched...
I don't recall if I lasted a week or 2 ....I can't remember right off....I don't think I worked the whole harvest....then for me back to whatever.....for them....off to some other parts of the country to harvest whatever was next....
People deserve respect and decent pay!
Sadly those onion fields are paved over with the Neverending local government promoted Sprawl Development.....
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Michael, you have such a wonderful life insight that you provided me. I am so grateful to read about your life experiences that made you who you are.
Thank you so much for reading, Nadia. What a wonderful compliment! Your feedback inspires me to keep going, especially in times of self-doubt.
Truly, keep writing and keep inspiring, you’re gifted.
A beautifully written piece exposing the reality of the rural immigrant experience.
I know. Personally. I come from a family of immigrants, some undocumented. The courage they showed escaping fascism in the 40s and willingness to take hard, dirty jobs Americans didn’t want, allowed me to enjoy the privileges of US citizenship.
Thank you so much, Evelina. They really are decent people who only want opportunity and a fair shake. But scoundrels like Trump play on the fears some people have of the others. They do it only for personal gain.
Thanks so much for posting this. La Fontera was great. Not one of the 69 million maga people watch PBS (part of the reason they are so mis-informed). How to get this message to them?
I think we have to take it upon ourselves to do whatever we can to get the truth out, that immigrants are a net benefit to our country and Trump is the menace.
Thanks so much for this. A much needed reality check.
Thank you so much for reading.
Thank you. But as usual, I want more. I want everyone who can make a difference to know these statistics. I want this kind of information to matter and it’s a gut punch to know that it may not.
We have to keep posting the numbers over and over to give them the best chance of being seen.
So if 11 million people get treated like chattel slavery under some creepy white supremacist goon, installed to replace a civil servant … It’s basically just mass murder committed by a mental patient who escaped the looney bin and slithered into power.