{"id":1441,"date":"2011-10-06T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/gary-black-starts-to-see-reason-on-hb-87.html"},"modified":"2011-10-06T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T16:30:00","slug":"gary-black-starts-to-see-reason-on-hb-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/gary-black-starts-to-see-reason-on-hb-87.html","title":{"rendered":"Gary Black starts to see reason on HB 87"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim Galloway quotes GA Ag. Commissioner Gary Black:<\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/a>
\n\u201cOne of the discussions we have to have is, do we want to have our
\nfood produced here or somewhere else? I don\u2019t think Wal-Mart is
\ngoing to cease to carry cucumbers. I think they\u2019re going to get them
\nsomewhere,\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also in Galloway’s AJC column yesterday,
\n
\nGary Black and the shifting debate over illegal immigration<\/a>,
\nBlack won’t back off HB 87, but admits it’s the source of the problem:<\/p>\n

\nThe state agriculture commissioner is walking a fine line. \u201cLet me
\nbe clear. My position from a standpoint of amnesty and pathways to
\ncitizenship has not changed one iota,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\nNor has Black renounced HB 87. Rather, state efforts to enforce federal
\nimmigration laws \u2014 blocked as a consequence of lawsuits \u2014 have
\ncontributed to \u201ca sea change\u201d in Washington\u2019s attitude, he said.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cWithout HB 87 and some of the other proposals, I don\u2019t know
\nthat we\u2019d be having this discussion about changing the guest-worker
\nprogram,\u201d Black said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Black seems to have organized some interesting timing of a report release
\nby his department:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\nBut another factor in the shifting of tides are the hard numbers rolling
\nin. Georgia\u2019s economy is poised to take a $391 million hit and shed
\nabout 3,260 jobs this year because of farm-labor shortages, according
\nto a report released by the state\u2019s agricultural industry \u2014 while
\nBlack was in Washington.<\/p>\n

\nIn the middle of the largest downturn Georgia has seen since the Great
\nDepression, it is possible that some people are rethinking the wisdom
\nof slapping around our largest industry.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now there’s a concept!<\/p>\n

\nAnd who does HB 87 really benefit?
\nCCA, which runs the ICE prison in Georgia.<\/p>\n

\nWe don’t need a CCA private prison in Georgia.
\nSpend those tax dollars on rehabilitation and education.<\/p>\n

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Jim Galloway quotes GA Ag. Commissioner Gary Black: \u201cOne of the discussions we have to have is, do we want to have our food produced here or somewhere else? I don\u2019t think Wal-Mart is going to cease to carry cucumbers. I think they\u2019re going to get them somewhere,\u201d Also in Galloway’s AJC column yesterday, Gary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,202,14,15,8,1381,72,20,21,22,332],"tags":[8750,8817,2796,8701,2002,8830,8730,7,1297,8749],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-agriculture","category-economy","category-education","category-georgia","category-immigration","category-incarceration","category-law","category-planning","category-politics","category-vlcoc","tag-agriculture","tag-cca","tag-gary-black","tag-georgia","tag-hb-87","tag-immigration","tag-incarceration","tag-lowndes-county","tag-private-prison","tag-vlcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}