Agreed - we need agricultural workers, mostly in the fields and groved out west.
Here is my solution: using private agricultural labor companies headquartered in Mexico to hire workers, provide transportation, sign contracts with farmers or farmers’ associations, and bring workers in for specific time periods. Farmers will house and feed. Workers are paid only a portion of their agreed upon wages with the remainder paid when they return to Mexico at the end of their contract. Next year repeat the process. No families and contracts only cover times for planting and harvesting. That is the idea, need to work out details. Back in the 50’s there was a similar program called the “bracera program” that came to an end with unions organizing workers. Nothing will work with union involvement!
correction, “groved” should be “groves.”