ramkrm1947's Blog

  I know that illegals working in the United States is a hot button subject, but read the following story, and offer a solution not just the usual "send them back where they came from".

  The Zimmerman family had been running their family dairy farm in Tower, North Dakota since 1996, the Dept. of Homeland Security raided his farm and arrested 13 of his 21-person staff, shutting down his 2,500 cow operation.

  Sandhills Dairy is 50 miles south of the Canadian border, when they started the farm Lee Zimmerman, his family and a handful of employees worked around the clock for three years, as the surrounding farm consolidated he need to expand to compete, he placed ads for workers, he had a few workers answer but the work was to hard and they didnt last.

  So in 2001 they hired Mexican workers, who presented the required two forms of identification, soon half his staff was Mexican, and he was milking 700 cows three time a day, they were the only dependable source of labor.

  After the raid the remaining workers barely slept as they tried to milk 700 cows just once a day,  the resulting lack of personal caused the calves to go without milk and 30 died, desperate for workers, he ran another ad for workers, three locals, with no experience showed up, all were gone within three months.

  The Zimmermans were forced to sell off some of there herd so they would not loose there farm, these folks did everything they could possibly do to comply with the law, they had all the work documents, they even requested the Boarder Patrol to examine the document, but they refused.

  Illegal Immigration is a large problem in this country, what do you do when someone attempts to hire locals and they can't handle the  hard, back breaking work the job requires, this leaves little options, other than to go out of business, we have lost enough family farms to large corporate interest already.  Like I said in the beginning, don't just rant about "kick the damn Mexicans out", offer a solution.