Southern Farmers Practicing Slavery

Submitted by: Jessekr Finley

He found that all the immigrant workers few of which fluently spoke the English language were warm, friendly, and just down to earth common folks much like him. He felt he was truly going to enjoy the camaraderie.

Well he quickly found out that the job in many ways was just not sustainable. He agreed to the pay structure of being paid based on his amount of production. For my friend, being paid based on his output made him feel challenged, and was very much a motivator for him.

Well his first day he didn t expect to make much because he knew there would be a slight learning curve, and as his speed picked up, so would his pay. His first day, he made just a tad over twenty bucks, just enough to eat for the day, and have enough gas money to cover his drive to and from the job.

Then as a few days passed, he started to make a little more money up to around fifty dollars for the day after about a week. Well my friend thought wow you know, I m darn near as fast and productive as my co-workers, but who in America can survive off of fifty dollars a day?

But, my friend being as strong willed as he is chose to keep at it, and make it work out. So as days and even weeks passed, he worked harder, and harder, and even producing more than many of the older less healthy immigrant workers. Even after almost a month, he was having a hard time making more than sixty or seventy dollars per day.

My friend began looking for housing closer to the farm to save on gas money, and quickly found that there was no housing available anywhere near the farm he was working that was affordable. Becoming discouraged, my friend began to ask his co-workers if they new of any affordable places nearby to stay. He quickly found out, that many of the migrant workers were sleeping in their cars, tents out in the woods, or renting small run down shanty apartments on the outskirts of town and living with as many as ten to an apartment.

My friend thought for a moment, and quickly figured out. He was being given the opportunity to experience slavery. Hard work, absolute minimal pay, no benefits, run down shanty style housing if any housing at all looks like slavery, smells like slavery and there you have it modern day slavery.

But here s the difference, my friend is young, has family here in America helping with support, and he also has more opportunity and choices.

What about the illegal immigrant that is at the sole mercy of the southern farmer for what he gets. Again, looks like slavery, smells like slavery, must be slavery.

Hard to imagine this in modern day America, but it looks like them good ol southern folks just found a way back to establishing their livelihood off the backs of slaves, but the slaves which are illegal immigrants are merely a shade lighter than the ones of the old days.

So here s the deal. If you are a southern farmer, and you are hiring illegal immigrants to work your farms, its high time America closes in on you. If you are hiring illegal immigrants, you are breaking the law, plain and simple.

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