Think about it: we would not have to educate the children of the robots pickers…in their own language, no marches for amnesty….no “press one for English”.

MORE ROBOTS, FEWER ILLEGAL ALIENS PLEASE!

From WIRED MAGAZINE:

Farms Fund Robots to Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers
Vision Robotics is developing a machine to trim grapevines in the fall.
Image: Vision Robotics

robots are rolling into the middle of it.

Vision Robotics, a San Diego company, is working on a pair of robots that would trundle through orchards plucking oranges, apples or other fruit from the trees. In a few years, troops of these machines could perform the tedious and labor-intensive task of fruit picking that currently employs thousands of migrant workers each season.

The robotic work has been funded entirely by agricultural associations, and pushed forward by the uncertainty surrounding the migrant labor force. Farmers are “very, very nervous about the availability and cost of labor in the near future,” says Vision Robotics CEO Derek Morikawa.

Agricultural groups hope Vision Robotics can build this harvester to replace labor crews.

Image: Vision RoboticsIt’s a surprising new market for Vision Robotics, which had been focused on developing consumer devices, including a robotic vacuum cleaner to compete with iRobot’s Roomba.

When a member of the California Citrus Research Board approached the company in 2004, Morikawa was doubtful that an effective robotic picker was even feasible. A citrus grower brought the skeptical engineers to an orange farm in California’s fertile Central Valley, where they walked down the neat rows of trees and stared at the oranges hanging in the branches.

Previous attempts at making a mechanical harvester were thwarted by inefficiency, explains Morikawa. In the past, experimental machines approached a tree as a human would, picking one piece of fruit and then looking for the next. In this slow process, the machine circled the tree repeatedly until it was sure it had picked all the fruit.

Morikawa says his engineers had their breakthrough idea right there in the orange grove. They realized that the task could be divided between two robots: One would locate all the oranges, and the second would pick them. “Once you know where all the fruit is, then it becomes an easy job to calculate the most efficient way to pick it all,” says Morikawa.

The eight-armed orange harvester will strip ripe fruit from trees.

Image: Vision RoboticsBut it wasn’t just technological challenges that held back previous attempts at building a mechanical harvester –- politics got involved, too. Cesar Chavez, the legendary leader of the United Farm Workers, began a campaign against mechanization back in 1978.

Chavez was outraged that the federal government was funding research and development on agricultural machines, but not spending any money to aid the farm workers who would be displaced. In the ’80s, that simmering anger merged with a growing realization that the technology was nowhere near ready, and government funding dried up.

This time around, growers’ associations are funding the research. By the end of this year, the orange growers will have invested almost $1 million in the project, says Ted Baskin, president of the California Citrus Research Board. He estimates that it will take about $5 million more to get to the finished product.
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For those of you who have any doubt….pls watch this HOW TO video from the lawyers.

Bush Urges Hispanics to Push Immigration Bill

Cox News Service
June 16

WASHINGTON — President Bush urged Hispanics on Friday to lobby hard for a major immigration bill, a day after it was revived in the Senate.

“Each day our nation fails to act, the problem only grows worse,” he said, at the annual National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast. “I will continue to work closely with members of both parties, to get past our differences, and pass a bill I can sign this year.”

Bush’s comments came after Senate leaders announced on Thursday a deal that would allow the legislation to come back to the Senate floor as early as next week.

But the fate of the measure is uncertain. more…

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And here.

Employment Down Among Natives In Georgia
As Immigrant Workers Increased, Native Employment Declined in Georgia
Contact:
Steven Camarota
sac@cis.org
202-466-8185

WASHINGTON (June 20, 2007) — Some businesses in Georgia argue that they need large numbers of immigrants because there are not enough native-born Americans to fill jobs that require relatively little education. However, state employment data show that as the number of less-educated immigrant workers has grown dramatically, the share of less-educated natives holding a job in Georgia has declined significantly.

# Between 2000 and 2006 the share of less-educated native-born adults (ages 18 to 64) in Georgia holding a job declined from 71 percent to 66 percent. (Less-educated is defined as having no education beyond high school.)

# Had employment rates for natives been the same in 2006 as they were in 2000, then 186,000 more less-educated native-born adults and teenagers would have been working. The number of less-educated immigrants holding a job increased by 218,000.

# Less-educated blacks in Georgia have seen a somewhat larger decline in employment, from 66 percent holding a job in 2000 to just 60 percent in 2006.

# There are nearly 800,000 less-educated native-born adults in Georgia not working. There are likely between 250,000 and 350,000 less-educated illegal aliens holding jobs in the state.

# Wages and salary for less-educated adults in Georgia have stagnated. Over the entire six-year time period of the study, real annual wages for less-educated adults grew by just 1 percent. If there was a labor shortage, wages should be rising fast.

# Native-born teenagers (15 to 17 years of age) have also seen a dramatic decline in employment. Between 2000 and 2006 the share of native-born teenagers holding a job declined from 22 percent to 11 percent in the state.

# There are about 300,000 native-born teenagers not working in Georgia.

# Immigrants (legal and illegal) increased their share of all less-educated workers in Georgia, from 7 percent in 2000 to 19 percent by 2006. Other research indicates that at least half of this growth was from illegal immigrants.

The full release is available here.

The below column was written for and posted on Dick Pettys’ Insider Advantage Georgia, a subscription Website. It is reposted here with permission. We thank Mr. Pettys for the space.

I have added several hyperlinks to educate the reader.

D.A.’s column today on Insider Advantage Georgia

It’s the Open Borders, Stupid

“There Shall be Open Borders” – A recurring 1984 front – page proposal from the Wall Street Journal for a five-word amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

For those whose years of research includes easily accessed, factual and documented material and statements that no one told them not to read, hear or accept, it has become somewhat sadly amusing to watch as well-known and well-connected political writers struggle to expertly dissect the actions of George W. Bush on the pending amnesty-again legislation in the U.S. Senate.

Sadly amusing, but tiring.

The Bush agenda is brilliantly clear for those who can think for themselves and see him for what he strives to be: the last president of a sovereign and independent America with defended borders.

It is impossible to be both a Nationalist and a Globalist; the American president has chosen the latter.

Memo to the ‘experts’ on two-party politics in today’s global America: Try this pre-9/11 plea from the Atlanta Journal Constitution editorial page as they echo the Wall Street Journal, on September 7, 2001: “Mexican President Vicente Fox envisions a North American economic alliance that will make the border between the United States and Mexico as unrestricted as the one between Tennessee and Georgia… the ultimate goal of any White House policy ought to be a North American economic and political alliance similar in scope and ambition to the European Union.”

The AJC went on to correctly note that: “Though neither Fox nor President Bush expects to dissolve the 2000-mile border overnight, the Mexican leader clearly prefers sooner rather than later.”

It’s the open borders stupid.

The fact that Bush would have stopped illegal immigration on the morning of 9/11 if he had any intention of ever doing so is one that proponents of the revived amnesty-again legislation avoid at any cost. Including the verbal gymnastics involved in continued defense of the scheme in the face of the endless roar of opposition from those troublesome American citizens.

Only out of touch politicians who have spent too much time inside the beltway can make themselves believe another law will change George W. Bush.

Fox ran out of time in his six-year term. Bush sees the window of opportunity to fulfill his appointed task closing with each day closer to the election in which he cannot run.

Legalizing the more than 10% of Mexico now residing illegally in the U.S. is essential to his goal and he will stop at nothing to obtain their amnesty – along with that of the criminal employers for whom he works.

Unless stopped, Bush, teamed with Teddy Kennedy – and the corporate masters who control both – is perhaps mere weeks away from eliminating sovereignty and the rule of law as a basis of the government of United States.

We hear of the “suicide” of the GOP, but not the death of a nation…or the birth of an “expanded NAFTA in an integrated North America”.

Why? It sounds out of place at cocktail parties.

“Globalism” is more than a theory of international business; it is the reason for the president’s refusal to honor his oath of office without any fear of punishment.

In its purest form, “free trade” requires the free flow of goods, services… and labor.

People provide labor.

That whooshing sound far too few acknowledge hearing is not only American jobs being exported, but the nation-state ending noise of illegally importing Mexico’s poverty to supply the low-skilled labor positions that Americans have until now been allowed to fill with a living wage…in their own country.

In his testimony to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere June 9, 2005, Robert Pastor, author of “Toward a North American Community”, said that “what we should do now is to forge a North American Community…” As part of the title of chapter seven of his book he asks the question: “Can sovereignty be transcended”?

Does anybody else note a pattern here?

Remember the “American Dream” of a middle class, negotiated wages and benefits? Passe, outdated and oh – so “old America”. Charming, but far too expensive.

We should all look around and ask a simple question: Is there more evidence that Bush has any plans to secure American borders, or officially open them?

While the “experts” ignore the above, let them also ignore the Council on Foreign Relations 2005 publication “Building a North American Community”, the extensive Arizona State university teaching Website “Building North America” and the fact that as we consider the reality of the obvious, according to U.S. Border Patrol and John McCain, more than 10,000 illegal border crossings occur every day.

The real decision in the senate is whether or not there will be open borders and choosing between Bush Inc. and the American people.

We’ll be watching.

D.A. King is a columnist in the Marietta Daily Journal and president of the Marietta – based Dustin Inman Society, a non-profit coalition dedicated to educating the public on the consequences of illegal immigration. On the Web: www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org

VIDEO – Newt Gingrich on the amnesty-again legislation HERE.

DO NOT read the news stories from all over the nation here!

Robert Rector — National Review

Look to Milton — Open borders and the welfare state

A decade ago, Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman admonished the Wall Street Journal for its idée fixe on open-border immigration policy. “It’s just obvious you can’t have free immigration and a welfare state,” he warned. This remark adds insight to the current debate over immigration in the U.S. Senate.

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