Amazing!? All these years of working with Mexicans who come up on work visas and I never realized we needed a “guest worker” program
“Amazing!? All these years of working with Mexicans who come up on work visas and I never realized we needed a “guest worker” program.”
California had a “guest worker program” in the 1950’s and 60’s. When a few Blacks made it into our legislature, they claimed that the Mexicans who came here under that program were “taking their jobs.” So the program was terminated. Just drove across the Salinas Valley last week at 6am. The “commute” to the fields was in full swing. No Blacks, but most of the Mexican Farm Workers were driving new cars! It’s back-breaking work, something that Blacks decided wasn’t for them years ago.
I thought they were one and the same. Problem is letting them bring their whole families, have kids here, receive benefits, etc. In the old days I knew Mexicans that got work visas, worked and made good money in Mexican terms, then went home after the crops were picked and lived well until the next season.
Good point. We already have a guest worker program. It raises the question whether Ben Carson understands the difference between a legal and an illegal working in America.
Beyond that, it is as has been said. Price the labor at the cost an American will accept it, and I guarantee the work will get done. Make it 50 an hour, and maybe I’ll do it.
Or, as 2ndDivisionVet says, ‘automation’. Make it 50 an hour and I guarantee we’ll start getting those bounceable, tennis ball tomatoes. Yum. Dry grainy pulp throughout from first to last bite.