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dulouz
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 Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 2:03 am Post subject: USA Illegal Immigration Power Surge Tanking |
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| Pretty remarkable development. Looks like Catholic quilt works on Hispanic immigrants "Thou Shalt Not Lie". "Thou Shalt Not Steal". God is on the side of the secure border crowd. |
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AbbeFaria
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| Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 3:43 am Post subject: |
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I'm sorry, I'm lost. Is there supposed to be some kind of article along with this that you forgot to post or something to make sense of the thread title and the statement? And you meant guilt, not quilt, right? Because otherwise I'm really lost. 
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TheRecruiter
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:15 am Post subject: |
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dulouz
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:24 am Post subject: |
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Sep 9, 2006 6:00 pm US/Pacific
Low Turnout At LA Illegal Immigrant Rally
(AP) LOS ANGELES Few people turned out today for a rally in Los Angeles demanding amnesty for eleven million illegal immigrants.
It's the latest sign of pro-immigrant groups' struggles to regain momentum after hundreds of thousands marched through the spring.
Local bands jammed to rock music, vendors offered chicken tacos and a dozens of activists set up information booths in a field in downtown Los Angeles.
But by 5:30 p-m, more than an hour after the rally started, only two-hundred people had shown up. The majority of them were organizers and journalists. Organizers had expected about 5,000 participants.
Organizers downplayed the low turnout, saying more could appear later and the quantity of people wasn't important to make their point.
(� 2006 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed
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AbbeFaria
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:51 am Post subject: |
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hahaha
that's funny
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ChuckECheese
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:21 am Post subject: |
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AbbeFaria.....
Dang dude or dudatte, change your avatar. You're hurting my eyes and giving me a headache........ |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:28 am Post subject: |
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| Yea, its a really good optical illusion. |
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happeningthang
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:04 am Post subject: |
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| Not usually prone to agreeing with Dulous, but it's an awesome avatar. |
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AbbeFaria
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:36 am Post subject: |
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AbbeFaria.....
Dang dude or dudatte, change your avatar. You're hurting my eyes and giving me a headache........ |
If you must, stare at the cheeks or the bridge of her nose. It gets easier after awhile. I'll leave it until I find something better.
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dulouz
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LAKEPORT, Calif. � The pear growers here in Lake County waited decades for a crop of shapely fruit like the one that adorned their orchards last month.
Max Whittaker for The New York Times
Pears rotted on the ground of Nick Ivicevich�s orchard. He lost about 1.8 million pounds of them.
�I felt like I went to heaven,� said Nick Ivicevich, recalling the perfection of his most abundant crop in 45 years of tending trees.
Now harvest time has passed and tons of pears have ripened to mush on their branches, while the ground of Mr. Ivicevich�s orchard reeks with rotting fruit. He and other growers in Lake County, about 90 miles north of San Francisco, could not find enough pickers.
Stepped-up border enforcement kept many illegal Mexican migrant workers out of California this year, farmers and labor contractors said, putting new strains on the state�s shrinking seasonal farm labor force.
Labor shortages have also been reported by apple growers in Washington and upstate New York. Growers have gone from frustrated to furious with Congress, which has all but given up on passing legislation this year to create an agricultural guest-worker program.
Last week, 300 growers representing every major agricultural state rallied on the front lawn of the Capitol carrying baskets of fruit to express their ire.
This year�s shortages are compounding a flight from the fields by Mexican workers already in the United States. As it has become harder to get into this country, many illegal immigrants have been reluctant to return to Mexico in the off-season. Remaining here year-round, they have gravitated toward more stable jobs.
�When you�re having to pay housing costs, it�s very difficult to survive and wait for the next agricultural season to come around,� said Jack King, head of national affairs for the California Farm Bureau Federation.
California farms employ at least 450,000 people at the peak of the harvest, with farm workers progressing from one crop to the next, stringing together as much as seven months of work. Growers estimate the state fell short this harvest season by 70,000 workers. Joe Bautista, a labor contractor from Stockton who brings crews to Lake County, said about one-third of his regular workers stayed home in Mexico this year, while others were caught by the Border Patrol trying to enter the United States.
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