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The region, where farm machines are few, the land is rocky and rainfall is erratic, simply could not compete with the mechanized, nature-blessed bounty of U.S. agriculture. Those who had the misfortune to live in the Tlacuitapa region -- and in many other regions throughout Mexico -- had no way of making a decent living.

Mechanized, nature-blessed bounty of U.S. agriculture???

Gee, I thought our farm produce cost less because of all those cheap illegal Mexican immigrants.

I mean don't we hear over and over about how the cost of U.S. produce would skyrocket if we had to pay U.S. Citizen farm workers a living wage?

Mexico is full of those hard-working Mexicans, yet their produce costs more than ours. Hmmmm.

I mean don't we hear over and over about how the cost of U.S. produce would skyrocket if we had to pay U.S. Citizen farm workers a living wage? Mexico is full of those hard-working Mexicans, yet their produce costs more than ours.

Freetraders believe that economy is a zero sum game - the less workers are paid the more affluent the upper class will be. The wages are seen by them as a necessary evil to be reduced to minimum.

Also they do not want to wast limited resources on mechanisation if they can get cheap labor.

There are robots, already invented, to mechanically harvest produce and they do it faster, cheaper and as well as human beings.

Some produce, like strawberries have need robotic vision systems to help determine ripeness. Robotic vision systems lagged behind other robotic technologies, but they are now starting to come into their own. Other produce, like olives, oranges and grapes can be harvested mechanically without problems.

Just think if we went to robotic harvesters, we could eliminate one of the lures for illegals, jumpstart a new technology and manufacturing industry and become the world leaders in robotic harvesters.

But thats just too American. In the new global system Americans must are support the rest of the world through illegal labor. The "free trade" system would fall apart if third world countries couldn't include in their negotiations, their excess labor force. And the globalists wouldn't want that would they, now that they are so close to dominating the world via "free trade".

Gee, I thought our farm produce cost less because of all those cheap illegal Mexican immigrants.

If our farming methods are so economically superior, why are government subsidies necessary? Why does the US government follow-up farm subsidies with cheap loans to purchasing countries to promote sales? My guess is that without heavy government investments in agriculture, we couldn't compete successfully on the international market.