I saw a documentary about undocumented workers at dairy farms and chicken processing plants. The folks that ran these operations, I believe they were in northern states, said they were hard pressed to find local folks to do this kind of work. The undocumented workers showed up for every shift and worked hard; never complained.
On another note Iâm 73 and traveled back and forth across the U.S. and lived in 13 states. I cannot think of a time when I thought the crisis at the border affected me in any way. I canât think of anybody I know that has been affected.
I can. I know many people, my mother and a number of friends and their families, who are from foreign countries - Canada, Armenia, Iraq, Russia, France - who spent a lot of money and waited years for final approval to emigrate to the Unites States. Then they worked hard and studied to become American citizens. Those people are being slapped in the face by our government's policy of just opening the doors to millions of various riff-raff.
Two couples that I know, both from Armenia, came here with advanced degrees - a geophysical engineer, his wife with a Master's degree in music, a registered nurse, and her husband with a master's degree in entomology.
The engineer could only get a job delivering pizza, his wife could only get a job at a grocery store. The registered nurse eventually got a job with the state as an office technician, and her husband went to work for a beekeeper.
These are the people we should be recruiting to come to this country. Not someone to pick your tomatoes.
A few years ago I read an article that basically said, "If the people who pick oranges were paid $12/hr instead $X
(which was the minimum wage at the time) the cost of a bag of oranges would increase by about $0.50 cents." Pfftt!
So I've always maintained that the farmers should just pay whatever it costs to hire legal pickers. I, for one, would gladly pay even an extra $20 - $30 per month for groceries if that's what it takes. Here are some examples - there are many more:
The increased media coverage of the plight of the more than 2 million farmworkers who pick and help produce our foodâand whom the Trump administration has deemed to be âessentialâ workers for the U.S. economy and infrastructure during the coronavirus pandemicâhas highlighted the difficult and...
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âThe Plate,â National Geographic ⢠March 31, 2016 Giving the 3.5 million workers picking produce on American farms a raise to match the $15 an hour many fast food workers are fighting for sounds unaffordable, right? Not really. According to University of California-Davis agricultural labor...
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