Not a Mexican in Sight

Unintended consequences of Alabama's new immigration law.

Not a Mexican in Sight

 

By Elton Camp

 

Alabama’s immigrant law has been upheld

So, in droves, Mexicans have been expelled

 

The governor is smiling and so highly elated

At the departure of those he’s intensely hated

 

“I have fulfilled the promise of my campaign

That illegal aliens I wouldn’t allow to remain.”

 

“Now the jobs those scums once used to do

Can be filled by our own Americans true.”

 

But now the fall crops lie rotting in the field

Few Americans are willing to pick its yield

 

There’s a big shortage of workers in the gin

For only the Mexicans knew how to begin

 

Chicken plants can no longer process fowl

Though for workers they’ve put out a howl

 

The housekeepers have now left our town

And replacements haven’t come around

 

For the many jobs that are very hard and hot

Not near enough to fill them have we now got

 

Though to the governor it is a welcome delight

Others suffer with not a Mexican now in sight

 

Reviews

[The Analog Kid]

It's true. I wouldn't want to work in those nasty chicken processing plants. There's got to be a happy medium. Either that or chicken will be a lot more expensive.