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Wages rise on California farms. Americans still don’t want the job

Bodhisattva said:
Do you think that "legal" immigrants that came from Mexico and paid for Visa's and such would take picking jobs?
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I don't know. The probably would, but would expect labor laws to be followed, and wouldn't have the choice of blowing the whistle and being deported, or continuing to work under adverse conditions.
 
Dittohead not! said:
I agree.
Which is why we should sentence non violent criminals to so much hard labor, and not to so much time spent in a cage. They'd come out a lot better equipped to return to society.
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It's not a bad idea. There is an enormous amount of work needed that people can learn good skills from. Why pay some contractor prevailing wage when we have lots of labor just sitting at home.
 
Bodhisattva said:
Do you think that "legal" immigrants that came from Mexico and paid for Visa's and such would take picking jobs?
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A temporary worker program for agriculture could allow fruit pickers in from mexico legally

It would be controlled by immigration

Only workers but not their family would be allowed in
 
Mac77 said:
A temporary worker program for agriculture could allow fruit pickers in from mexico legally

It would be controlled by immigration

Only workers but not their family would be allowed in
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Plans like that are good ...
 
Dittohead not! said:
I was wondering just when someone would point out that the article doesn't fit the false narrative that illegal immigration stepped up under the Obama Administration, but is being ended under Trump.
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I never said it was being stepped up under Trump.Trump hasn't even been in office 3 months yet, nor has he signed any laws cracking down on illegal immigration yet. Obama's executive amnesties,appointing pro-amnesty judges, pushed for amnesty, allowing illegal immigrants to stay here under the guise of refugee status, using numbers that other administrations didn't in order to fraudulently inflate the number of people deported, and going after Arizona for SB 1070 are things that encourage and increase illegal immigration. So it is a lie to say illegal immigration crackdown stepped up under Obama.
 
jamesrage said:
I never said it was being stepped up under Trump.Trump hasn't even been in office 3 months yet, nor has he signed any laws cracking down on illegal immigration yet. Obama's executive amnesties,appointing pro-amnesty judges, pushed for amnesty, allowing illegal immigrants to stay here under the guise of refugee status, using numbers that other administrations didn't in order to fraudulently inflate the number of people deported, and going after Arizona for SB 1070 are things that encourage and increase illegal immigration. So it is a lie to say illegal immigration crackdown stepped up under Obama.
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If Trump is not the reason for the decline in illegal immigration, then there must be some other factor.
 
Dittohead not! said:
If Trump is not the reason for the decline in illegal immigration, then there must be some other factor.
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They are probably scared that he might actually round them up and deport them. Which might make it that more painful for them if there were to just wait until that happens verses leaving on their own. When Mexican repatriation and Operation wetback happened a lot of people returned to their country on their own instead of trying to take the chance that they might not be caught and deported..
 
jamesrage said:
They are probably scared that he might actually round them up and deport them. Which might make it that more painful for them if there were to just wait until that happens verses leaving on their own. When Mexican repatriation and Operation wetback happened a lot of people returned to their country on their own instead of trying to take the chance that they might not be caught and deported..
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Perhaps.
Or, perhaps the article from the OP has it right:

Already, fewer Mexicans had been willing to risk border crossings as security and deportations escalated under the Obama Administration. At the same time, Mexico’s own economy was mushrooming, offering decent jobs for people who stayed behind.
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How has Mexico's economy been doing?
 
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