Race for '08: GOP voters decry stances on illegal immigration

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http://www.sacbee.com/812/story/591544.html

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Pat Ricutti is a diehard Republican voter, but he laments what he's hearing from GOP presidential contenders about illegal immigration.

The Fresno fruit and grape farmer gave money to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani last February at a fundraiser. He said he won't be giving him or any other candidate a dime more at this point, though, until he starts hearing alternatives to calling for millions of illegal immigrants to be shipped off or pressured to leave voluntarily.

"We're what, the sixth or seventh largest economy in the world?" Ricutti said, referring to California. "Do they really know what it would be (like) to send all these people off? It will cause a major disruption in the American way of life."

Ricutti may be Republican, but he's also among tens of thousands of California business owners – farmers and landscapers, hotel and restaurant operators, nursing home managers and home builders – who hire immigrant laborers.

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