Activate the Mechanism!: Fewer workers cross border, creating U.S. farm labor shortage.
On more than 10,000 acres of drained swampland in western New York, Maureen Torrey’s family farm grows an assortment of vegetables in the dark, nutrient-rich soil known as “Elba muck.” Like other farms in the area, Torrey Farms Inc. of Elba, N.Y., depends on seasonal labor, mainly undocumented…
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I-Is this kidding? We really RELY on illegal immigrants to help run our farms and such? If one of those jobs is near...
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If any of you out there are unemployed and near agricultural areas, this might be a solution for ya…..
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Or maybe you won’t accept anything less than minimum wage? Yeah, migrant workers get the short end of the stick when it...
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To the person who wrote the bolded comment, I also kinda wonder if these people are advertising to the general public...
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and yet people in the USA complain there aren’t any jobs, that latinos are taking them all and that’s why they want to...
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And when no one shows up to work the jobs that have “been taken from us”…
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Probably not, actually. At least not entirely. My guess is that it’s a mix of: people being over-skilled for and...
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