{"id":1774,"date":"2011-07-11T08:05:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T12:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/ga-hb-87-ridiculed-in-california-editorial.html"},"modified":"2011-07-11T08:05:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T12:05:49","slug":"ga-hb-87-ridiculed-in-california-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/ga-hb-87-ridiculed-in-california-editorial.html","title":{"rendered":"GA HB 87 ridiculed in California editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ventura County Star in California<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/news\/2011\/jul\/10\/editorial-georgias-anti-immigrant-law-sows-farm\/\"><br \/>\neditorialized Sunday:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/news\/2011\/jul\/10\/editorial-georgias-anti-immigrant-law-sows-farm\/\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   width=\"200\" height=\"64\" src=\"http:\/\/web.vcstar.com\/static\/images\/vcs\/titlebars\/b\/2ndlayer_default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nLaws sometimes have unintended consequences, and laws hastily passed in time of high political passions inevitably do.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe state&#8217;s agricultural commissioner estimates Georgia farmers will<br \/>\nneed 11,000 more farm workers over the rest of the season and they&#8217;re<br \/>\nnot getting them. Attempts by desperate state officials to cajole the<br \/>\njobless and 2,000 unemployed criminal probationers into doing fieldwork<br \/>\nhave been almost comically ineffective. Once they get a taste of stoop<br \/>\nlabor in the crushing heat, they&#8217;re gone.<\/p>\n<p>\nOne frequently repeated assertion is that the farmers could simply raise<br \/>\nthe wages. In the improbable event the farmers could afford to do so, and<br \/>\nin the even more improbable event that city dwellers actually showed up to<br \/>\nwork in the fields, Georgia would be at a huge competitive disadvantage in<br \/>\nthe price-sensitive field of commercial agriculture with other farm states<br \/>\n\u2014 states that, for instance, don&#8217;t have punitive anti-immigrant laws.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe hiding field hands aren&#8217;t the only ones hurting. There is a real<br \/>\ndanger of farmers losing their farms and even more businesses shuttering<br \/>\non the main streets of small farming towns.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe consequences of these harsh anti-immigrant laws were certainly<br \/>\nunintended, but they were also eminently predictable.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, Lowndes County can become a laughingstock, too, by opening a private prison<br \/>\n!<br \/>\nOr we could reject that and spend those tax dollars on rehabilitation and educat<br \/>\nion.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ventura County Star in California editorialized Sunday: Laws sometimes have unintended consequences, and laws hastily passed in time of high political passions inevitably do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,202,1113,48,40,14,15,1381,72,733,178],"tags":[8750,8817,8701,8830,8730,7,8749],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-agriculture","category-cca","category-code-enforcement","category-community","category-economy","category-education","category-immigration","category-incarceration","category-media","category-vlcia","tag-agriculture","tag-cca","tag-georgia","tag-immigration","tag-incarceration","tag-lowndes-county","tag-vlcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","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=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}