July 3rd, 2012 at 4:52PM
Activate the Mechanism!: Fewer workers cross border, creating U.S. farm labor shortage.

abaldwin360:

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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