[quote=FlyerInHi] . . . The country folks are not affected by immigration, yet they fear it most. We embrace it.[/quote]This is absolutely untrue. Virtually ALL of the agricultural jobs that illegal immigrants take are in the rural areas. The legal citizens in those areas don’t “fear” these people but this immigrant group does often find themselves needing medical care and food/commodity aid and even food and blankets and utility assistance (cost of heat). The local area must bear the cost of this, organize the food and clothing drives and charities to help them.
Have you any idea how much it costs to heat a drafty rental farmhouse with 12 occupants in Kersey, CO (Weld County) in the dead of winter?? That cost is just the tip of the iceberg for Weld County taxpayers, the State of CO and the “Public Service Company of CO.”
