Another unintended consequence: Alabama immigration law reveals dirty little secret (al.com) [View All]

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By John Archibald -- The Birmingham News

Jesse Durr leaned back in the tomato fields of Chandler Mountain Wednesday and raised his arms to the heavens.

"When I get another job I ain't gonna have a problem with nobody," he swore -- or maybe prayed. "After these tomato fields, any job is a good job."

After those fields, any job is a great job.

Forget, today, all you feel about Alabama's controversial immigration law. This is not about that. Not about the rightness or wrongness of it.
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Durr, through the Grow Alabama program that puts people to work on farms, began picking tomatoes last week. His first day, earning a dollar for every 25-pound box he filled, he made $23. He kept coming back.
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more: http://blog.al.com/archiblog/2011/10/another_unintended_consequence.html



4 cents a pound? Wow, that really jacks up the price for consumers.





















:sarcasm: