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Tancredo sends head of lettuce to Chertoff 
Response to claim that if immigration bill fails, ag industry will suffer

It’s not every day a presidential hopeful sends Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff a head of lettuce, but that’s what Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colorado, is doing Wednesday to show his disagreement with Chertoff’s recent comments on how failure of passing immigration reform might affect the agricultural industry.

Tancredo says he disagrees with recent comments Chertoff made that suggested if the immigration bill fails, the agricultural industry will suffer. To prove his point he is sending Chertoff a head of lettuce, a fruit basket, and a card saying, “much, much more where this comes from.”

“The administration has taken hyperbole to a whole new level this time,” Tancredo said in a statement. “They are now trying to convince the public that without amnesty, the American people are going to starve?”

“The agriculture industry and the free market has managed to keep producing through floods, droughts, and $3.00 per gallon gas,” Tancredo added, “I doubt very seriously that a nominal increase in labor costs is going to be the end of lettuce as we know it.”

In a July 14 speech before the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Chertoff said, “Without reform that brings workers in legitimately, that makes it efficient for businesses, including agricultural businesses, to hire those workers efficiently, and without some kind of a mechanism to promote agriculture and to deal with the current illegal work force, we’re going to put people like you and those you represent in a terrible bind — they’re either going to have to break the law, which is a bad thing to do, or they’re going to have to shut down their farms, which is a bad thing to do, or what’s going to wind up happening is those farms are going to Mexico and Canada.”

This was the same excuse given for not ending the use of slaves for picking cotton and peanuts.  ::) ::)

American ingenuity will survive and overcome such minor difficulties that a lack of illegal immigrants might cause.

 

I love it!  Someone should send fruit and vegetables to Bush and all of the other pro-amnesty group.  Prior to the influx of illegal immigrants, we somehow managed to have our crops picked.  I certainly haven't noticed a reduction in produce prices as a result of this cheap labor.   

Just as we don't need to grant amnesty to 12-20 million or more people in order to secure our borders.  They insult our intelligence.