{"id":24321,"date":"2011-12-07T17:04:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T00:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/a-new-peculiar-institution.html"},"modified":"2011-12-07T23:27:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T06:27:04","slug":"a-new-peculiar-institution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/a-new-peculiar-institution.html","title":{"rendered":"A New Peculiar Institution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#39;s see: manual laborers in the field &#8230; paid a pittance &#8230; kept under lock and key and unable to escape &#8230; becoming a critical and irreplaceable part of the economy &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Where have we heard of that Alabama plan before? #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F12%2Fallabor.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2011\/12\/06\/382852\/alabama-agriculture-department-promoting-plan-to-replace-immigrants-with-prisoners-to-farmers\/'>Alabama Agriculture Department Advances Plan To Replace Immigrant Workers With Prisoners<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThinkProgress has been reporting on the catastrophic economic consequences of Alabama\u2019s harshest-in-the-nation immigration law. Undocumented workers are the backbone of Alabama\u2019s agriculture industry,&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#39;s see: manual laborers in the field &#8230; paid a pittance &#8230; kept under lock and key and unable to escape &#8230; becoming a critical and irreplaceable part of the economy &#8230; Where have we heard of that Alabama plan before? #ddtb Embedded Link Alabama Agriculture Department Advances Plan To Replace Immigrant Workers With Prisoners &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/a-new-peculiar-institution.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A New Peculiar Institution&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,77,17,9],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-economy","category-homeland-security","category-politics-law","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":24321,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":24321,"position":1},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). 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