Immigration -vs- food

I know that illegal immigrants are a hot topic in this country. From the beginning of immigration to the United States (before there was a United States), the current residents always had a problem with those moving in on their "turf". Just ask the Native Americans. They certainly did not want "white faces" living and working next to them.

With each new wave of immigrants the last group that was percecuted became the next group to percecute. Be it the Polish, Irish, Italians, Jews, Japenese, etc. each group was percecuted by the last. Yet each group has added to the United States in some way. The Hispanics add to this by harvesting food that everyone of you eat.

On our dairy farm, we have put many people to work. My husbands family has had this farm for generations. There used to always be someone looking for a job, or someone looking for extra money during haying season. In the past 10 years we have had very few Angol Americans looking for work. When there is a need to replace a worker we used to sort through applications, then it turned into going into the community to look for someone that might need a job. Now we have to go to an agency in another state that supplies Hispanic employees. You hear about high unemployment but no one is looking to work on dairy farms. If it wasn't for the Hispanics that work for us, we would not be able to supply the milk that we do to feed Americans.

It is the American culture that is at fault. We all want our children to be doctors and lawyers. When was the last time you heard someone say that they wanted their children to grow up to shovel manure and work 70 to 80 hours a week without a day off, for little or no pay. At my daughters high school graduation last year, we as farmers were dumb-founded when there were 5 students that listed their future ambitions as "farming". Why? We don't want our children to grow up to be farmers for little pay and no respect.

As for the Hispanics stealing our jobs, there is no one else to do this job. As for the Hispanics not paying taxes, all of our employees pay taxes. As for them committing crimes, our employees only leave the farm when I take them shopping and they are good respectful people that know that you can ask them to leave at any time. As for them becoming citizens, they just want to earn enough money to send home to support their families and children that they haven't seen in years. They love their native country and they plan to return to their home country.

So in conclusion, this is a battle that has been going on since Columbus sailed the ocean blue. It is nothing new. But the respect that you show everyone around you tells a lot about who you are and where you came from. God Bless everyone.