{"id":515,"date":"2006-03-31T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2006\/03\/31\/fruits-of-Justice-2\/"},"modified":"2006-03-31T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-01T00:16:00","slug":"fruits-of-Justice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2006\/03\/31\/fruits-of-Justice-2\/","title":{"rendered":"fruits of Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6608\/1089\/1600\/dana.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6608\/1089\/200\/dana.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>prison labor made an unlikely appearance in a <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/03\/31\/washington\/31immig.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">times<\/a> <\/em>report on the immigration debates. u.s. representative <a href=\"http:\/\/rohrabacher.house.gov\/\">dana rohrabacher<\/a>* opposes any sort of guest worker program. mr. rohrabacher dismissed the arguments of president bush and business leaders about the nation&#8217;s low-wage labor shortage:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Let the prisoners pick the fruits<\/strong>,&#8221; Mr. Rohrabacher said. &#8220;We can do it without bringing in millions of foreigners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>as the orange county republican is well aware, there are <i>plenty<\/i> of prisoners in california. while there are few no-brainers on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/opinion\/ci_3645066\">complex<\/a> immigration issue, reprising the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dc.state.fl.us\/oth\/timeline\/1921.html\">convict-lease system<\/a> is unlikely to solve california&#8217;s problems. if nothing else, we&#8217;d need a five-fold increase in incarceration to replace the labor of an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants. and, of course, collective amnesia about the abuses of prison labor in this country and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\">*judging by his age, voting record on <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/rohrabacher.house.gov\/news\/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=33573\"><span style=\"font-size:85%\">defense appropriations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%\">, and the greenish beret in the picture, i expected to find a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/11\/28\/cunningham\/\"><span style=\"font-size:85%\">duke cunningham<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%\">-like record of distinguished military service in mr. rohrabacher&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/rohrabacher.house.gov\/Biography\/\"><span style=\"font-size:85%\">bio<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%\">. nah, turns out he&#8217;s a tough-talking, no-nonsense <em>surfer, <\/em>with a master&#8217;s degree from usc in american studies.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>prison labor made an unlikely appearance in a times report on the immigration debates. u.s. representative dana rohrabacher* opposes any sort of guest worker program. mr. rohrabacher dismissed the arguments of president bush and business leaders about the nation&#8217;s low-wage labor shortage: &#8220;Let the prisoners pick the fruits,&#8221; Mr. Rohrabacher said. &#8220;We can do it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}