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Last year, about a quarter of Biringer Farm’s strawberries and raspberries rotted in the field because it couldn’t find enough workers…
[Biringer Farm’s] travails reflect a broader struggle by U.S. fruit, vegetable and dairy farms to secure farmhands as illegal immigration from Mexico declines and a strengthened U.S. economy makes it easier for people to find less backbreaking work...
More broadly, growers say they are bearing the brunt of the federal government’s crackdown on illegal immigration, as they lack a suitable alternative workforce. U.S.-born workers unaccustomed to farm labor abandon the job after just days during harvest, farm owners say, and the supply of mostly Mexican laborers that made up for them has shrunk in recent years. That is partly due to tighter U.S. control of its southern border and a declining Mexican birthrate that has decreased the number of young workers heading to the U.S.
Overall in the U.S., the decline in workers is reducing fruit and vegetable production by 9.5%, or $3.1 billion, a year...
originally posted by: Metallicus
a reply to: DelMarvel
So they are 'undocumented' workers and not illegals because that would be an inconvenient fact.
The bottom line is I will pay more for food to create higher paying jobs for Americans that are here legally than support a criminal illegal alien industry that exploits workers and creates low wages.
originally posted by: Metallicus
a reply to: DelMarvel
So they are 'undocumented' workers and not illegals because that would be an inconvenient fact.
originally posted by: Metallicus
The bottom line is I will pay more for food to create higher paying jobs for Americans that are here legally
originally posted by: reldra
a reply to: DelMarvel
You are right and the jobs have been offered to out of work American American Citizens- By the American Farmworkers Union- 3 people applied.
originally posted by: reldra
originally posted by: Metallicus
a reply to: DelMarvel
So they are 'undocumented' workers and not illegals because that would be an inconvenient fact.
The bottom line is I will pay more for food to create higher paying jobs for Americans that are here legally than support a criminal illegal alien industry that exploits workers and creates low wages.
Does the label really matter? The bottom would fall out of our econemy and you would be paying hardcore if we removed these people. Would you be thinking about labels then?
originally posted by: MrSpad
originally posted by: reldra
originally posted by: Metallicus
a reply to: DelMarvel
So they are 'undocumented' workers and not illegals because that would be an inconvenient fact.
The bottom line is I will pay more for food to create higher paying jobs for Americans that are here legally than support a criminal illegal alien industry that exploits workers and creates low wages.
Does the label really matter? The bottom would fall out of our econemy and you would be paying hardcore if we removed these people. Would you be thinking about labels then?
Which is why nobody ever does anything about it. Nobody wants to be the President that tanks the economy the price of food and other things skyrocket and loose the taxes those people pay just in sales tax alone. The increase in the price of food means people spend less on other things, so jobs are cut, those people need assistance which now cost the US more because food prices have risen, with those people not spending, more jobs are cut etc.
Donald Trumps know this as illegals have been vital to his business.
originally posted by: JaMeDoIt
Ooops...the answer is in the article. Spend the $3.1 billion to pay the workers a living wage. Why blame the american workers, or any worker for not wanting to work for starvation wages? Granted it is hard work...so pay a worker for hard work...these growers are brain dead or just greedy...the solution is in front of them but is it easier to let crops rot.
Sound easy...it is but the greedy bastard growers will let food rot rather than give up a dime of their profits. Good...let the food rot, no one should be exploited for the benefit of the growers.
Thank you...problem solved.
Cheers