Driver in deadly US 285 crash had been ordered to return to Mexico 16 times

Lol. Now thats funny

 

They talked about this endlessly in the 80s. The beef packing industry killed that pretty quick though.

 

And Agriculture

 

Yesterday, I was driving EB on I-70 down the hill into Denver. Parked on the shoulder in the same spot at the Denver West exit where that Cuban killed a bunch of people was a driver that looked Somali standing at the rear of the trailer with a fire extinguisher. I didn't see what it was but I'm guessing the brakes caught on fire.

 

For decades migrants worked the fields and then went home after harvest. The packing houses encouraged them to settle down near the plants. Neither paid them what the labor is worth.

 

The folks at our local meat packing plant start at $15 per hour. I'd say just north of 2X the minimum wage is pretty dang good money for someone with no education, training, skills, or experience, and who doesn't speak the predominant local language.

 

Agreed. It seems they are killing us off routinely. Every time I turn around there's another dead American at the hands of an illegal. It's like they're soldiers being sent here to slowly destroy us from the inside.out. A foe we cannot defeat because our government allows it to continue.

 

He was ordered to return to Mexico? Like he's just gonna take his happy ### right back down there. I wonder who follows up on this order to be sure he goes back. I say take him back in a airplane, make a low pass and push him out , hand cuffs and all.

 

First, a lot of jobs in a packing house require more training and skill than a lot of truck drivers have, and definitely a lot more physical labor. Second, the American union guys were making more than $9 per hour in 1982. That is equivalent to $29.29 an hour today. Has the cost of beef been going down?