AgJOBS and Bush's immigration proposal.

AgJOBS Will not work. There is no point in even speaking about such a system in the midst of the criminal ag business labor subcontracting. The purpose of the ag labor subcontracting is to avoid all forms of legalization. It will continue to forge documents and pay sub par wages.

The above is fact for a simple reason. No immigrant. Legal or illegal comes to America to live a life of a farm worker. It is a position that is taken as a stop over job. A position that in short order will lead to non ag jobs.

These jobs in the ag business performed by the illegal immigrant are part time jobs. Jobs good for 9 months of the year at best. The low wages and the instability of employment insure a continuing need for more and more illegal immigrants. What would you expect the immigrant to do during the 3 to 6 months of unemployment?

We already have immigration provisions that require that an immigrant to refrain from collecting government subsistences. How do you suggest that a immigrant do this while working in a low paying part time job.

If you want a steady work force. Create a steady job. A job that provides for a wage for the employee for the entire year. A job that provides opportunity for the employee.

Immigration to provide for cheap labor for part time jobs, is a idiotic idea.

Kern Counties farm towns have winter unemployment that reach 40% at times. There is no need for nor opportunity for immigrant labor in the ag business at this time.

There must be great sanctions placed on the avoidance of employment regulations. Loop holes in the subcontracting of labor from owner to contractor must be addressed.

I worked for years in the farm fields while in school. Although it is indeed a difficult job. If the wages are right. Americans will line up in droves to do the work.

Because of illegal immigration and the flooding of the labor market. Jobs that I did in the 60's for 700 dollars a week. Pay only 350/week today.

Until these conditions of employment are addressed. Nothing can be solved. It is all a waste of time, money and hot air.