{"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":"The Ventura County Star in California\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/news\/2011\/jul\/10\/editorial-georgias-anti-immigrant-law-sows-farm\/\">\neditorialized Sunday:<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/news\/2011\/jul\/10\/editorial-georgias-anti-immigrant-law-sows-farm\/\">\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>\nLaws sometimes have unintended consequences, and laws hastily passed in time of high political passions inevitably do.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<!--more-->\n<blockquote>\nThe state&#8217;s agricultural commissioner estimates Georgia farmers will\nneed 11,000 more farm workers over the rest of the season and they&#8217;re\nnot getting them. Attempts by desperate state officials to cajole the\njobless and 2,000 unemployed criminal probationers into doing fieldwork\nhave been almost comically ineffective. Once they get a taste of stoop\nlabor in the crushing heat, they&#8217;re gone.\n<p>\nOne frequently repeated assertion is that the farmers could simply raise\nthe wages. In the improbable event the farmers could afford to do so, and\nin the even more improbable event that city dwellers actually showed up to\nwork in the fields, Georgia would be at a huge competitive disadvantage in\nthe price-sensitive field of commercial agriculture with other farm states\n\u2014 states that, for instance, don&#8217;t have punitive anti-immigrant laws.\n<p>\nThe hiding field hands aren&#8217;t the only ones hurting. There is a real\ndanger of farmers losing their farms and even more businesses shuttering\non the main streets of small farming towns.\n<p>\nThe consequences of these harsh anti-immigrant laws were certainly\nunintended, but they were also eminently predictable.\n<\/blockquote>\nHey, Lowndes County can become a laughingstock, too, by opening a private prison\n!\nOr we could reject that and spend those tax dollars on rehabilitation and educat\nion.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"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"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-sC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_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}]}}