L.A. Times Reporter Hector Becerra Lamely Poses as Stoop Laborer to Shill for Immigration Reform

You gotta love it.

Reporter Hector Becerra tried to get all authentic with the non-English speaking field workers in Santa Maria, "A day in the strawberry fields seems like forever":

I wore the uniform of the other men: jeans, a tad too baggy so that I kept having to pull them up; a sweat shirt with a hoodie and a jacket over it; a baseball cap; and dusty, steel-toed work boots that a daddy long-legs had called home.

But even if I was dressed like the other workers, the clothes felt like a disguise. As soon as I opened my mouth, my fluent but American-sounding Spanish, not to mention my baby-soft hands, gave me away.

I shared that my parents were immigrants too. It was a defense mechanism, I guess, as much as a way of connecting with them. It didn't matter — they probably would have been generous either way.

About an hour into the picking, my upper and lower back were beginning to tighten and my legs began to burn a little from the stooping.

Oh poor Hector, you pathetic left-wing shamnesty tool. More:

Mark Teixeira, the owner of Teixeira Farms, which owns much of this land, snapped a long stalk and said: "This is how you eat broccoli." With his front teeth, he skinned the stalk and ate it like a carrot.

He invited me to try it. It was sweet and better-tasting than the broccoli head.

Teixeira, an affable guy with a sharp sense of humor, has argued publicly that Americans are unwilling to do the hard work that's necessary to gather crops. Like other growers, many of them conservative Republicans, he argues for immigration reform that provides for a steady stream of immigrants to do the work others won't.

"Americans don't want to do the fieldwork. They'll go over and make hamburgers for $8 an hour with no insurance, no nothing, when they can make more money here," Teixeira said. "I don't care if you pay $20 an hour, they'll come here one or two days, and they're gone. It's a mind-set: They think fieldwork is below them."

Yeah, yeah. Let's just open up the flood gates to the world's poor just yearning to breathe free --- and yearning to mooch off our over-generous welfare state. We have plenty of legal immigrants who will do this work. You don't have to pose like a freakin' idiot to make the case for the left's moral bankruptcy. Go find some news or something to report on, you hack. You think people in California don't know how hard it is to pick strawberries?

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