I'm glad to see they are doing it and I hope it holds up.  However, I do have some mixed feelings on immigration.  Basically, legal immigration should be allowed and probably expanded within the constraints of security for the US.  I feel for most of the illegals in that they came here looking for a better life, but still they are illegal.  And while most work hard, they don't seem to make any significant effort to fit in.  More like they either want us to change and tolerate their obvious disrespect of laws or they want to maintain their little "cultute club" to exclude us.  Oh and they want all the freebies that the taxpayers of this country pay for, (and if anybody says they pay taxes, I'll ask you to provide independent verification of how much they provide versus how much they cost.)  What jacks my jaw even more are the politicians that view them as a voting block.  Excuse me, they are here illegally, they don't get to vote, EVER!

My grandparents immigrated to this country in the late 1800's and early 1900's, looking for a better life and escape from the coming WW I.  My parents were sent to school to learn ENGLISH and come home and teach my grandparents how to speak it.  They didn't look for handouts or freebies, they worked their butts off, saved their money and became Americans, not some freeloaders willing to take whatever they could get and change this country.  

I guess that's the difference.  My grandparents came here, legally, to become American versus today's immigrants who think we owe it to them to change.

I don't begrudge anybody the chance to work hard and provide a better life for their family but since it sure looks like they don't want to fit in, then they should go back to where they came and we should build a deep, tall and wide concrete wall along our southern border as well speeding up the process of legal immigration. 

Sorry that this turned into a bit of a rant.

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Warning ful rant mode.

There's another point.  This crap about the crops won't get harvested.  My Dad and his brother grew up on the farm.  They were all the "help" there was.  There is now one, just one, hired hand.  I didn't grow up on the farm but my mom still owns Dad's share and one of my nephews owns the other share.  I'm not sure of the exact acreage but I'm guessing the Wells farms total about 640 acres.  Now I know that is all corn and soybeans and planting and harvesting is highly mechanized.  But there is also the cattle, the pigs and the chickens to take care of and equipment and building require maintenance also.  I'm sure a lot of the fruit crops are a lot more labor intensive but still, if I didn't have a job I'd be glad to pick fruit to support my family.  And has anybody priced a combine or a tractor lately?  I haven't but IIRC the tractors we were using 30 years ago were about $40k and a combine was pushing a $100k.  (I could be off on those prices as Dad has been gone 20 years.)  Then there are the trucks and the elevators.  Hell there is a lot of capital to run a farm and some of that equipment is only used two or three weeks a year.  My point is if the farmer is willing to put up the capital, there is probably a way to get even the fruit crops harvested without a lot of labor.  So let me see, the progressive liberals who want the votes of the "oppressed" workers who can't get a job in their own country which has drug cartels pumping poison into our country which is somehow our fault because some idiot over here is willing to steal so he can not work and buy drugs are totally fine allowing illegal immigration so those volunteers can come over here and keep the whole lousy circle going?  (How's that for a run-on sentence?)  Shit, build the damn wall, constrict the flow of drugs and illegals and maybe, just maybe, the idiots over here will get a job.  Or are we supposed to suffer because Mexico is so corrupt they can't control the drug cartels; is that what the liberals think?  Hell, I used to be a "compassionate" liberal moderate until I learned the hard way that if somebody doesn't want to work, they're not going to and they'll pretend to be disabled until they've sucked up the last dime the hard working folk can borrow.  Compassion, true compassion, is not enabling the blood sucking slackers by not giving them a dime.  Cut them off and by golly they will find a way to work (until they can find a new sucker.)   Call me a conservative, a dis-illusioned liberal, an enlightened liberal, I don't care what anybody wants to call me.  I'm at least smart enough to know that if we enable slackers and cheaters and law-breakers then they will slack and cheat and break laws and they won't give one iota of care about the damage they do to society.

Rant off.  I'm going home to clean my new-to-me 715, install my new LB grip on my 740 and then go shoot some paper targets.  They've been bad targets and need to be shot.  Oh and I'm going to take my well mannered, hard working, cheerful 13 year old with me because by golly I need some help shooting those bad targets.  

Geez, who all do I owe beer to for putting up with my rant?  

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