{"id":1870,"date":"2011-06-23T08:23:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T12:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/many-rural-farmers-are-taking-notice-of-hb-87-patrick-davis.html"},"modified":"2011-06-23T08:23:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T12:23:59","slug":"many-rural-farmers-are-taking-notice-of-hb-87-patrick-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/many-rural-farmers-are-taking-notice-of-hb-87-patrick-davis.html","title":{"rendered":"Many rural farmers are taking notice of HB 87 —Patrick Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"Patrick Davis points out from Macon that HB 87 is producing\nLowndes County farm employment problems, and maybe local farmers\nshould take that into account when they vote.\n

\nPatrick Davis wrote,\n\nRural Republicans in Georgia can\u2019t have it both ways on immigration reform<\/a>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nWith the law passed and ready for implementation, many rural\nfarmers\u2014especially in Central and South Georgia\u2014are taking notice to\nthe exodus of migrant workers and immigrants which has left some farmers\nwithout workers to pick crops.\n

\nMany of these same farmers that are hurting economically and losing\ncrops in these rural counties had voted Republican for years.\n

\n\n<\/a>\nValdosta’s Ellis Black who represents parts of Lowndes County as a\nstate representative helped to pass Gov. Nathan Deal’s conservative\nand punitive agenda and consequently it has contributed to drive an\nincreasing number of migrant workers out of the Peach State.\n

\n\nBlack has continued to justify his HB-87 vote and attempt to support\nGov. Deal\u2019s ridiculous assertion in regard to the use of probationers\nas a solution.<\/a>\n<\/blockquote>\nThat last link is to\n\nParolees to replace migrants?\nGov. Deal says put probationers in fields<\/a>\nby David Rodock in the VDT 15 June 2011, which included:\n\n\n

\nLocal farmer Dee Ritter has never had much success with hiring workers\nfrom the U.S. Department of Labor.\n

\n“You would be out there babysitting and not getting anything\ndone,” said Ritter. “It goes back to having a non-immigrant out\nthere. They\u2019ll stop and chitchat without working if they can. This\nproposal wouldn\u2019t work; repealing the law is the only (thing) that\nwill work.\n

\n“Probationers is certainly not the way to fix the lack of farm workers,\nunless they want to send out armed guards to watch them. The reason\nthey\u2019re on probation in the first place is because they weren’t\nworking and they were out stealing or doing something else illegal.”\n<\/blockquote>\nWe already covered another part of that story in\n\nGov. Deal celebrates Juneteenth by recommending indentured agricultural labor<\/a>.\n

\nPatrick Davis continued:\n

\nWSB-TV had another story about a South Georgia farmer and\nhad\n\ninterviewed someone from Lowndes County\u2019s Lake Park and he is set\nto lose tens of thousands of dollars in crops<\/a> due to migrant workers\nbeing afraid to work for him and anywhere in the state of Georgia.\n

\nThe new law authorizes the state of Georgia to check the\nimmigration status of a suspect who doesn\u2019t have any acceptable\nidentification. Subsequently, it will lead to detainment along with\nbeing given to federal authorities.\n

\nThis new law also targets people who are suspected in helping illegal\nimmigrants either by transporting them or harboring.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<\/a>\nDetainment, as in the ICE prison CCA manages,\n\nNorth Georgia Detention Center.<\/a>\nDetains, as in perhaps in the private prison CCA wants to build\nin Lowndes County.\nSo CCA can profit while local farmers can’t pick their crops.\nIf the farmers themselves don’t get locked up for helping or harboring.\n

\nPatrick Davis also remarked:\n

\nDeal’s endorsement of House Bill 87 along with advocating to use\nprobationers as replacements in the fields of Georgia farms crosses a\nline which jeopardizes Georgia\u2019s economic future along with threatening\nto bring back the days of Jim Crow in the Deep South as a reasonable\nsolution.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<\/a>\nWell, we already have the new Jim Crow.\nWhen\n\nmore black men are in prison, jail, probation, or parole\nthan were enslaved before 1850,<\/a>\nwhen\n\nsix times as many black males per capita get locked up in the U.S.\ntoday as in South Africa under apartheid<\/a>,\nwhen\n\n1 in 13 adult Georgians are in the prison system<\/a>\nand 85% of them are black, we already have the new Jim Crow.\n

\n\n<\/a>\nWhat HB 87 does is to extend the new Jim Crow from black people to brown people.\nOh, and to farmers who might help or harbor them.\n

\nWho benefits?\nMonsanto, drug gangs, and CCA.\nNathan Deal has made a tiny step towards fixing the prison problem by\n\nsaying the state needs to rethink locking up nonviolent offenders.<\/a>\nWe need to go farther and\n\nend drug prohibition.<\/a>\nHB 87 is a step in the wrong direction.\nProbationers to replace farm workers is a step in the wrong direction.\n

\nWe don’t need a private prison in Lowndes County.\nSpend that tax money on rehabilitation and education.\n

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