Unintended Consequences

Following Arizona’s lead, other states are passing laws authorizing police to check the immigration status of suspects who cannot provide identification and detain anyone found to be in the country illegally. We’ve built that big dang fence along the Mexican border to keep illegals out. Now it’s time to round up the ones who are here and send them back, south of the border. Georgia is one of the states with tough new immigration laws. But now Georgian farmers are having a hard time finding enough workers to pick their harvest before crops rot in the fields. Who could have ever imagined that would happen? Governor Nathan Deal has responded by encouraging unemployed criminals on probation to work in the fields, replacing Latino migrants who once filled those jobs. Bravo, sir, for your creativity in the face of adversity! Unfortunately, few convicts have been willing to work the long hours of back-breaking field labor for low pay. Hey, if unemployed probationers aren’t going to take honest jobs handed to them on a silver platter, then maybe we’re rounding up the wrong people to send to Mexico.