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KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Mon Mar 30, 2015, 01:55 PM Mar 2015

Immigration problems impact crawfish season

http://www.sunherald.com/2015/03/29/6150031/advocate-immigration-problems.html

Going into what is supposed to be the biggest sales week of the crawfish season, processor Dexter Guillory, of Eunice, says he is nothing but worried.

One month into the peak season, during which the crawfish industry makes most of its money, an immigration kerfuffle has kept Guillory and most of the owners of the state’s dozen or so processors from hiring enough peelers.

Most of the workers come from Mexico and Central America. Without the peelers, the processors will stop buying as much crawfish from the fishermen....

Sherbin Collette agrees: “It could be that we lose half the industry. It’s that serious. It’s positively an emergency.”

If you've ever spent any time in Louisiana, you'll understand that he's not joking! For one thing, NOLA Jazz Fest is timed to coincide with the peak of crawfish season. The Fest without Crawfish Monica? Unthinkable!

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Immigration problems impact crawfish season (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2015 OP

They could pay a decent wage and get American workers to process the crawfish Dems to Win Mar 2015 #1

Well what's wrong with all those nykym Mar 2015 #2

not a problem. NM_Birder Mar 2015 #3

Suck the head, squeeze the tip KamaAina Mar 2015 #4

lol,...."do it yourself pearl necklaces" NM_Birder Mar 2015 #5

Dems to Win

(2,161 posts)

1. They could pay a decent wage and get American workers to process the crawfish

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 02:13 PM

Mar 2015

No sympathy for business owners who demand cheap immigrant slave labor.

There's no such thing as a "job Americans won't do." Finish the sentence! Americans won't do the job at the wages being offered.

nykym

(3,063 posts)

2. Well what's wrong with all those

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 02:14 PM

Mar 2015

USA, USA, USA workers the repubs keep complaining about Illegals taking their jobs???

NM_Birder

(1,591 posts)

3. not a problem.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 02:37 PM

Mar 2015

people need to learn to eat the tail and suck the head for themselves anyway.

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

4. Suck the head, squeeze the tip

Reply to NM_Birder (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 02:57 PM

Mar 2015

suggestive lyrics from NOLA's Radiators.

NM_Birder

(1,591 posts)

5. lol,...."do it yourself pearl necklaces"

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 03:24 PM

Mar 2015

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