https://capecharleswave.com/2012/07/2000-migrant-workers-missing-from-local-economy-tomato-fields-fallow/ Your Online Newspaper in Cape Charles, Virginia Fri, 07 Aug 2015 21:55:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 https://capecharleswave.com/2012/07/2000-migrant-workers-missing-from-local-economy-tomato-fields-fallow/#comment-24 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:27:42 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=489#comment-24 @KS: How many “legal” workers do you know that would work for the same wages and under the same conditions as migrant workers? Open up your heart for the good of all people, including the children.

]]> https://capecharleswave.com/2012/07/2000-migrant-workers-missing-from-local-economy-tomato-fields-fallow/#comment-18 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:26:32 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=489#comment-18 Assuming the migrant workers are legal, they might bring marginal monetary benefits to Cape Charles. But who pays for the costs of their children attending school? Who pays for their medical care (we do, they go to the ER, and walk out without paying) The cost of these and other costs for the 15-20 million illegal migrants in the US is breaking us, the taxpayers. Unemployed and underemployed Americans should be given decent wages to do the work now done by migrants. American workers too would buy gas, visit local shops and perhaps even pay taxes, rather than remit their earnings to their home countries.

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