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> Renee Taylor.
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>> Watching America Slip Away
>> Renee Taylor
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>> Author: Renee Taylor
>> Source: The Family Security Foundation, Inc.
>> Date: August 10, 2007
>> Why are life-long residents of a once close-knit, thriving Arkansas
>> community now afraid to drop by the local convenience store after
>> sunset? FSM Contributing Editor Renee Taylor explains how illegal
>> immigration is destroying this town and many others just like it.
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>> Watching America Slip Away
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>> By Renee Taylor
>
>> Two tomato processing firms based in Monticello, Arkansas â?" Candy
>> Brand, LLC and Tomato Shippers, LLC â?" as well as four local Bradley
>> County, Arkansas, residents â?" Charles Searcy, Randy Clanton, Dale
>> McGinnis and Brooks Lisenby â?" are the subjects of a lawsuit filed
>> by the Southern Poverty Law Firm, Montgomery, Alabama, on behalf of
>> three Mexican migrant workers: Rosalino Perez-Benites, Luis Alberto
>> Ascienco-Vasquesz and Pascual Noriego-Narvaez. The lawsuit recently
>> was filed in the U.S. District Court, Western Division, El Dorado,
>> Arkansas.
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>> The lawsuit contends that the plaintiffs were hired out of Mexico
>> on an H-2A visa to work in the tomato fields. The plaintiffs allege
>> the defendants did not pay them the prevailing wage for migrant
>> workers â?" $8.01 in 2007 and $7.58 in 2006. Their suit covers a time
>> period of 2002 â?" 2007. They further allege their employers did not
>> reimburse them for travel, visa and other hiring fees.
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>> The Little Rock attorney for the defendants, Michael S. Moore,
>> stated there was no basis for the claim, and has filed a motion for
>> a more definite statement from the plaintiffs. He has also
>> requested a jury trial.
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>> Known for its pink tomatoes, Bradley County, with Warren as its
>> county seat, is a quiet rural community in Southeast Arkansas,
>> first settled in the 1800s. The family names from those days still
>> grace the thin Warren phone book and until a few years ago, it was
>> a tightly knit community where residents felt â?oat homeâ? and safe.
>> Adults knew which children belonged to whom and we all shopped at
>> the local hardware and auto parts stores that ran "accounts" for
>> residents based upon familiarity and trust. Now we more often see
>> stores like Loweâ?Ts and Home Depot, whose workers have no earthly
>> idea who we areâ?¦or care. Such are the fruits of â?oprogressâ? .
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>> But there is also an unease settling into our once-proud community,
>> creating anxiety for all of us about our future and our childrenâ?Ts
>> fate. Many residents are concerned about the myriad effects of
>> migrant workers, many suspected to be illegal, brought in by the
>> tomato growers to work their lands. Downtown Warren, once the home
>> of a thriving furniture and appliance store and an upscale jewelry
>> store, among many other robust small businesses, now houses empty
>> buildings, a "check into cash" business that advertises the ease of
>> sending Western Union to Mexico, and a storefront with signs in
>> Spanish advertising cheap clothing and music. Around the corner,
>> another such storefront catering to the Mexican community has
>> emerged. Young migrants loiter at the local Mad Butcher grocery
>> store. Several local residents have voiced concerns of the
>> suspected gang-type clans that roam the parking lot. No longer do
>> they feel safe picking up a gallon of milk after 5 pm.
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>> The local health department provides "free" (free to the recipients
>> but not to the American taxpayers) medical care to the families of
>> the migrant workers, who pick up the voter registration cards on
>> the waiting room tables as they leave. Itâ?Ts important to note here
>> that it is against the law to vote if one is not a citizen. At the
>> local revenue office, the workers bring interpreters and their
>> recent electric bills to obtain a driverâ?Ts license or other
>> identification. Even though it is well known that many crimes and
>> worrisome events, including the purchase of handguns, can be
>> completed by illegals who obtain such licenses â?" the 9/11
>> terrorists had tens of driverâ?Ts licenses among them â?" this practice
>> continues unabated.
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>> The weekly county newspaper's "Arrest Report" is filled with
>> migrant workers arrested for drunk driving, driving without a
>> license or insurance, disorderly conduct and other crimes. This is
>> not a surprise, as violent crime and drug distribution and
>> possession is prevalent among illegal aliens, so over 25%% of
>> today's federal prison population is comprised of illegals. In some
>> areas of the country, 12%% of felonies, 25%% of burglaries and 34%% of
>> thefts are committed by illegal aliens.
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>> Locals have known for many years of the buses sent to the Mexican
>> border to pick up people to work the fields and tomato sheds â?" many
>> never leaving. They have watched as once quiet, well-maintained
>> neighborhoods have transformed into something more closely
>> resembling "Little Juarez". They grow increasingly frustrated at a
>> system that refuses to enforce immigration laws.
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>> Bradley County is only one of hundreds, maybe thousands, of
>> examples where American tradition and sovereignty are being
>> destroyed utterly by a system that encourages illegal immigration;
>> the hiring of â?omigrant farm workers" who refuse to learn or speak
>> English, and who have no respect for our laws and customs; and the
>> tolerance for elitist politicians who do not take these issues
>> seriously, are ignorant of them, or care only about their next
>> electionsâ?¦certainly not about their constituents.
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>> Wages on farms and in poultry plants have been forced down
>> dramatically due to the influx of migrant workers, causing
>> residents to leave in search of employment elsewhere to support
>> their families. A once-proud American community that sent its sons
>> and daughters to fight to preserve the unmatched quality and
>> richness of American life, in wars ranging from World War I to
>> Operation Iraqi Freedom, Bradley County is now itself dying a slow
>> and agonizing death. It raises the question: what did we fight for?
>> What did we protect?
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>> I suspect that Bradley County, Arkansas, is only one small example
>> of many, many more American towns and counties that have been
>> overtaken by the current wave of illegal aliens who do not at all
>> resemble Americaâ?Ts legal immigrants who built our great nation.
>> What kind of future do our politicians envision when they vote to
>> protect such law-breaking foreign nationals and their version of
>> American life, and not to protect law-abiding, true Americans â?"
>> legal immigrants and native-born alike - people like you and me?
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>> Are we too late to save ourselves? We shall see when the next
>> election rolls around. Our votes count more now, than ever.
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>>
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Renee Taylor is the
>> editor
ofhttp://www.greatmindsthinkright.com/, a freelance writer,
>> photographer, home schooling mom and publicist for Joey Holiday. A
>> former truck driver, she has devoted her time to studying convoy
>> operations and promoting the positive image of the American Trucker
>> in Iraq.
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>> author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, views, and/or
>> philosophy of The Family Security Foundation, Inc.
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