The servants of the open-borders elite never sleep, as we see from the most recent attempt at illegal alien amnesty from the Congress, the so-called Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019, aka HR5038.
The idea that more foreign workers would be “modernization” on the farm is particularly ironic, since agricultural automation technology has been advancing rapidly for years: for example, John Deere developed GPS for its tractors in 1997 and has continued the improvement of autonomous farm equipment that is piloted by computers rather than drivers.
Numerous farmers prefer the dependability of farm machines to the problems finding human temporary workers. According to a 2017 survey of 762 farmers conducted by the California Farm Bureau Federation, 33 percent said they were turning to mechanization to assure the work gets done. Certainly when ag robots become even less expensive, many more farmers will gladly switch to machines.
Below, a Magnum autonomous tractor with a planting attachment but no human driver is another indication that the future of farming is automated.
Farm robots are also easier to develop than factory models because there are no safety concerns like those where humans work near the machines.
If anything, the importation of foreign farm labor should be ended entirely because smart machines can do the cultivation and harvesting much more efficiently than humans. And why should the government legalize many thousands who will be unemployable in a few years?
NumbersUSA has more details of the proposed bill here, and Tucker Carlson presented a thorough rundown on Friday:
TUCKER CARLSON: Bipartisan consensus in Washington has been that America ought to give amnesty to all illegal aliens within our borders, no matter how many there are. The leadership of both parties believes this.
The problem is that voters definitely don’t believe it: they strongly disagree and have for decades. They’ve said so in polling consistently. But instead of paying attention to what the public wants, as usual, the parties ignore it and instead work together to do what they want by stealth.
Their latest gambit is called HR5038, a bill called the Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019. As usual, the name is Orwellian. The bill does not modernize America’s agricultural workforce, in fact, just the opposite — HR5038 is designed to keep our farming practices primitive and dependent upon low-wage manual labor.
The bill, which remarkably has a total of 24 Republican co-sponsors, would give amnesty to illegal immigrant farm workers in the United States, pretty much all of them. Even illegal aliens who’ve been convicted of crimes would be eligible for permanent residency here and eventually citizenship. Beneficiaries would not have to pay any back taxes that qualify even if they skipped court hearings or snuck back into the US after being deported.
Don’t you try something like that as a US citizen: Congress will have no mercy on you, but for foreign nationals — no problem.
How many foreign nationals would benefit from this act if it became law? Well in point of fact, nobody knows. The pro amnesty group Farmworker Justice estimates that at least 1.2 million illegal immigrants would be eligible — but if history is any guide, and it is — the actual number would be far far higher and that’s assuming the bill would restrict an amnesty to actual farm workers. Good luck with that.
HR5038 imposes very low document standards. Those applying for amnesty can submit all kinds of different documents. There’s no penalty for fraud — in other words there’d be no reason not to submit a bogus application. Needless to say, many people would just as they did thirty years ago during the Ronald Reagan amnesty.
That’s supposedly limited farm worker amnesty drew hundreds of thousands of fraudulent applications and here’s the key: most of them were approved anyway. in some cases even illegal immigrants who arrived in this country after amnesty became law were allowed to benefit from the amnesty. Think about that for a minute — it was a joke.
Now they want to do it again, but on a much larger scale. So to sum up — the Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019 would reward law breaking, exacerbate the border crisis and undermine the already stalled wages of American blue-collar workers.
it’s pretty much the mirror image the exact opposite of what Donald Trump ran on just three years ago, and yet members of Congress like Elise Stefanik, Tom Cole, Fred Upton and more than twenty other Republicans are now fighting to make it law.
Why is that? You’ve got to wonder — maybe they’re not bright enough to know what’s in the bill. Maybe there’s some other motive. Maybe someone should ask them.
