when I was a young man I worked in California. That was before the labor union organized. They had a very workable program whereby the grower associations contracted with companies which hired and sent in Mexicans workers to work the fields. When the work was done, the company took them back to Mexico. The growers provided shelter and food, the employment supplied the supervision and transportation. I don’t recall the details, but I know the growers were well satisfied with the arrangements, the labor companies were happy and the Mexicans had a nice hunk of change when they got home. My recollection is that they called it the “brocera” program, or something like that.
When I was a young man I was operating a jackhammer 10 hours a day horizontally breaking culvert walls for 3.50/hr. Within 3 years I was the construction superintendent at the same construction company. Ben knows that story. Why he is ignoring it is beyond me.