US Representative Ted Lieu’s Powerful Statement on Immigration rommel May 6, 2015 News Ticker, Politics, US 1626 Congressman Ted Lieu (D- California): I think it’s easy for people like you and me who wear suits and ties and work in offices to cast aspersions on those with a tenth-grade education and I certainly hope that you are not saying that only those with college degrees or high school degrees should be eligible for federal benefits . But let’s talk about some of these folks with the tenth-grade education such as Maria Isabel Jimenez. She was a farm worker, 17 years old. She worked for nine hours one day in a farm near Stockton in brutal heat without shade or water, then she collapsed. She was taken to a hospital; her body temperature was 108.4 degrees. She died two days later. When I was in the California State Legislature, I have had the opportunity to meet over the years many farm workers who have had families die in brutal conditions in the heat so that you and I can have less expensive orange juice, cheaper artichokes, or less expensive garlic. I just want to suggest that people like Maria Isabel Jimenez, that her net contribution in dying so that you and I can have cheaper grocery bills so we can spend less, she has given far more to American society than you and I ever will. Share this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)