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Who will harvest the crops?

azgreg said:
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Chomsky said:
Rather than a partisan journal's second hand opinion, let's go right to the source:

"The farm labor situation is complicated, however, by the fact that many U.S. farmworkers lack the immigration status needed to work legally in this country. Analysis conducted by Daniel Carroll, Annie Georges, and Russell Saltz using the U.S. Department of Labor's National Agricultural Workers Survey indicates that over the past 15 years, about half of the hired workers employed in U.S. crop agriculture were unauthorized, with the overwhelming majority of these workers coming from Mexico."

Source: United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service: Immigration Policy and Its Possible Effects on U.S. Agriculture

Now if you'd like to call me wrong for your partisan blog claiming 25%, to my U.S.D.A. claim of 50% - so be it.

But those numbers are a huge cry from the 2% you initially claimed, which is off by a magnitude of 25X! Or even the 12X you're off, using your likely inaccurate source.
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However your results at based on a "workers survey". While I can buy that half of the farm workers in agriculture are Hispanic, I cannot buy that half of them are illegals.
 
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