{"id":94,"date":"2010-09-27T17:14:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T21:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/09\/27\/illegal-immigrants-are-taking-americans-jobs\/"},"modified":"2010-09-27T17:14:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T21:14:33","slug":"illegal-immigrants-are-taking-americans-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/09\/27\/illegal-immigrants-are-taking-americans-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Immigrants Are Taking Americans&rsquo; Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uh, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100927\/ap_on_bi_ge\/us_immigration_jobs\" target=\"_blank\">no they aren\u2019t<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Most Americans simply don&#8217;t apply for jobs harvesting fruits and vegetables in California, where one of every eight people is out of work, according to government data for a federal seasonal farmworker program analyzed by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>And the few unemployed Americans who apply through official channels usually don&#8217;t stay on in the fields, a point comedian Stephen Colbert \u2014 dressed as a field hand \u2014 has alluded to in recent broadcasts on Comedy Central.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#8217;s just not something that most Americans are going to pack up their bags and move here to do,&quot; said farmer Steve Fortin, who pays $10.25 an hour to foreign workers to trim strawberry plants for six weeks each summer at his nursery near the Nevada border. He has spent $3,000 this year ensuring domestic workers have first dibs on his jobs in the sparsely populated stretch of the state, advertising in newspapers and on an electronic job registry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uh, no they aren\u2019t. Most Americans simply don&#8217;t apply for jobs harvesting fruits and vegetables in California, where one of every eight people is out of work, according to government data for a federal seasonal farmworker program analyzed by The Associated Press. And the few unemployed Americans who apply through official channels usually don&#8217;t stay&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/09\/27\/illegal-immigrants-are-taking-americans-jobs\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}