The San Francisco Chronicle talks today about California senator Dianne Feinstein’s beef with the current guest worker bill:

“I do not believe you can have a guest worker come for three years, renew it for another three years, bring their family, settle in, put children in schools, and then they’re going to turn around and go back at the end of six years,” Feinstein said. “It doesn’t happen. They disappear. And that’s the problem. That’s the rub. That’s the magnet.”

So Feinstein is splitting with her party, and wants immigrants to truly be “guests”…meaning they’ll leave forever at some point.

Texas “ranchers and sheriffs” testified before a senate commitee about their experiences with “illegal immigration”:

“My neighbors and I are facing circumstances that can best be described as deplorable,” said Lavoyger Durham, a third-generation rancher managing the El Tule ranch in South Texas 75 miles north of the Mexico border.

“We now must live with the constant possibility that we could be attacked or killed on our own properties,” Durham said. He said he has found immigrants dead on his property, that he and other ranchers are fired upon, guards are held at gunpoint, and women are threatened by smugglers charging immigrants thousands of dollars to cross.

Immigrants attacking and killing? Is this “el mundo al revés“? Last I checked it was the immigrants who were being attacked and killed.

Back to Feinstein; she’s apparently discriminating against any immigrant that isn’t a farmworker:

Feinstein, for her part, sits on the Judiciary Committee and is calling for tougher border enforcement. She supports more visas and a path to citizenship only for farmworkers.

“There is one industry that depends on undocumented workers, virtually in its entirety, and that’s agriculture,” Feinstein said.

I guess we’ll have to shut down all of those amazing San Francisco restaurants, where your server is lily white and the guy preparing your foie gras is from Michoacan.

Via / SFGate