[SkyPilot]

Chelsea Strong said she used to work at Southern Valley but left because she felt mistreated.

A bus full of Southern Valley field workers, most of whom were Latino migrant workers, on their way to the fields.

[marron]

My kinfolk worked the very same fields back in the fifties. They’d travel in from our home state, rent a house, and work the season.

People did what they had to do back when it was harder to get on relief. And people had more compunctions about accepting it.

Cut off the inflow of illegals, and the work will still get done. The price may go up a bit, but since most of the cost of your produce is in packaging and shipping and refrigerating and retailing, you could double the cost of the hand labor and your beans won’t go up that much.

As it is, when illegals manage to legalize themselves, some of them continue to work in the fields but many of them move into other kinds of work, oilfields, construction, what-have-you. But since there are always more illegals coming in, the ag wages are insulated from having to compete.

[wku man]

"For years, labor unions and immigrant rights activists have accused large-scale farmers, like those harvesting sweet Vidalia onions here this month, of exploiting Mexican guest workers. Working for hours on end under a punishing sun, the pickers are said to be crowded into squalid camps, driven without a break and even cheated of wages."

Fine. They can take their diseased criminal a**es back to the 3rd World sh!tholes from whence they came. I hear Juarez is nice this time of year.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[exPBRrat]

...just laying the groundwork for another industry shakedown.

One of the few industries left that can’t flee the country. And unlike the rest of us that pay REAL money for grocerys the EBT card holders aren’t impacted by this latest example a racial grifting.

[Bon of Babble]

My mother (aged 90) picked and packed peaches in California’s Central valley in the summer where average daily temps are 100+.

Her family was dirt poor — but in those days there were no SNAP cards, Section 8 housing, free phones, subsidized cable TV, free lunches.

The house burned down and they were forced to live in a tent for 6 months while neighbors helped my grandfather re-build (NOT THE GOVERNMENT). My mother said many of the boys in her high school class were killed in WW II - wonder how they’d feel now about the country the fought and died for.

Hunger makes people do whatever they have to to feed themselves.