The author/Cornell prof ... in the middle
Posted on 01/14/2019 4:51:54 AM PST by lowbridge
The nation's attention is once again focused on the southern border, where President Trump claims the U.S. is facing a "crisis" over illegal immigration.
Sometimes forgotten as the nation focuses attention on migrants currently trying to cross the border is that millions of undocumented immigrants continue to live in the U.S. – and most of them work.
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Since agriculture is the industry that's most reliant on undocumented workers – and it's my area of expertise and research – let's zoom in on it.
Overall, the agricultural industry in the United States has been on the decline since 1950. Back then, farming was a family business that employed more than 10 million workers, 77 percent of whom were classified as "family." As of 2000 – the latest such data available – only 3 million work on farms, and as noted earlier, an estimated half are undocumented.
Increasingly, dairy farms such as those in New York rely on workers from Mexico and Guatemala, many of whom are believed to be undocumented. Currently, there is no visa program for year-round workers on dairy farms, so the precarious status of these workers poses serious concerns for the economic viability of the dairy industry.
In 2017 research conducted by the Cornell Farmworker Program, 30 New York dairy farmers told us they turned to undocumented workers because they were unable to find and keep reliable U.S. citizens to do the jobs. That's in part because farm work can be physically demanding, dirty and socially denigrated work. More importantly, it is one the most dangerous occupations in the U.S.
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The author/Cornell prof ... in the middle
Nonsense! Supply-Demand-Wages-Prices fixes everything.
Resorting to name calling tells me you ran out of facts. Bummer.
My industry operates fifty year old equipment right next to the cutting edge stuff and still maintains its margins, because everyone else in the same industry is operating under the same capital constraints.
You’re looking at history like it’s an event instead of a process.
Government looks the other way as illegals work for farmers....check
State laws exempting farmers from liability for accidents caused by illegal workers.......check
Oh it’s true the industry would suffer without illegals......it’s just that the suffering would amount to less profit for farmers.
Exactly. Great money to be made in the trades these days. Most kids these days don’t have the skills or smarts for it.
No spacial reasoning, no idea how anything works or goes together. They are content to sit in a little cubicle forever.
I worked construction during the early 90s...
The really sad thing is that hard, outdoor work is what some of our young men want and need. It used to be that a man could make a decent and honest living swinging a hammer. Let’s face it, not all are suited for school and college. But these opportunities are being stolen from them by illegals. Another reason to build the wall.
I do not believe a word of that. You are full of sh!+. If $20 is not enough go for $21. It is not rocket science.
Communists like to fix wages too.
CBS (Communist Broadcast Service) isjust part of the leftist elite that think they can bring benevolent slavery to the USA.
I gave you facts, and you chose to cherry pick from my statements to respond like a pissed-off, adolescent, girl to insult my coworkers.
So now we’re supposed to buy your sanctimonious complaint of “name calling?”
Nice bubble you got there! God forbid anything should happen to it!
He would have a word to say to these venal employers who claim to have a need for rent-a-slaves---illegals--- and therefore a right to them..
The following US industries cannot operate without criminals:
Drug_dealing
Extortion
Employing people without proper documentation
If the only way they can stay in business is by breaking the law, then perhaps they should not be in business.
Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!
“Maybe the dairy industry ought to be looking for innovation.”
It has... in many ways. But it is still labor intensive and Americans don’t want to work.
But paying higher wages would be ok if USA closed our market to foreign imports and set a fixed price of $6.50 per gallon for milk.
“Not word one about how Wisconsin ‘gets it done’ with American workers & technology...hmmmm!”
They have just as many illegals working as the other states.
What the idiots in DC have created is a system where new illegals must be added every few years to replace the people who have 'moved up'...
It's nuts.
Worse, displaced Americans are NOT on 'furloughed' with paychecks waiting in the future - they're on the street looking for work. Screw democrats and their fake 'compassion'...
Start a construction company and let me know how it goes. You might think you know what you are talking about because you stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night but otherwise I would say you haven’t a clue.
The quickest way to resolve this illegal immigration crisis is to start throwing business owners who hire them in jail. One the job market dries up, there’s no incentive for them to come. No wall necessary.
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