{"id":10295,"date":"2011-07-17T11:54:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T15:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10295"},"modified":"2018-08-10T15:23:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T19:23:50","slug":"in-the-aftermath-of-georgias-victory-over-illegal-farm-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/17\/in-the-aftermath-of-georgias-victory-over-illegal-farm-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"In the aftermath of Georgia&#8217;s &#8220;victory&#8221; over illegal farm workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I linked to a story about <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/21\/in-unrelated-news-georgia-now-has-farm-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia&#8217;s attempt to crack down on illegal agricultural workers<\/a>. It was, in terms of achieving its stated goals, a big success: illegal workers left in droves for other jurisdictions. It wasn&#8217;t quite as successful from the point of view of <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2011\/07\/the-fruits-of-immigration.html\" target=\"_blank\">farmers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>To combat the shortage, Governor Nathan Deal has authorized using criminal offenders out on probation to replace the mostly Latino migrant workers. It\u2019s not working out so well:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The first batch of probationers started work last week at a farm owned by Dick Minor\u2026So far, the experiment at Minor\u2019s farm is yielding mixed results. On the first two days, all the probationers quit by mid-afternoon, said Mendez, one of two crew leaders at Minor\u2019s farm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThose guys out here weren\u2019t out there 30 minutes and they got the bucket and just threw them in the air and say, \u2018Bonk this, I ain\u2019t with this, I can\u2019t do this,\u2019\u201d said Jermond Powell, a 33-year-old probationer. \u201cThey just left, took off across the field walking.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/JonHenke\/statuses\/92599563780759552\" target=\"_blank\">John Henke<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I linked to a story about Georgia&#8217;s attempt to crack down on illegal agricultural workers. It was, in terms of achieving its stated goals, a big success: illegal workers left in droves for other jurisdictions. It wasn&#8217;t quite as successful from the point of view of farmers: To combat the shortage, Governor Nathan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[465,74,9,13],"tags":[1220,554,95],"class_list":["post-10295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-food","category-law","category-usa","tag-georgia-us","tag-immigration","tag-jobs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2G3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44476,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions\/44476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}