Tammy...again, I am not condoning this. I am simply saying this exists. And no, there are not enough American cowboys in that area to take care of those ranches. If there were, they would hire them too. They are not there. There are many young men up there who are not working at all and have absolutely no interest in working the ranches. If you own a ranch you know it is hard work. They are not interested in doing it.
When you are talking about ranches and cowboys I can promise you that I know far more than you about that. There is a community of skilled cowboys that work on ranches all over this country. There is no where they won’t go or any area too remote if they are paid a living wage and treated with respect. Ranchers that really want to hire citizen cowboys have no issue doing so and in fact there are waiting lists to go to work at many ranches all over this country. My entire family has and does make a living on ranches and I know how it works. I have lived over 100 miles from a town with even a small grocery, I have lived without electricity and been very happy because we were treated well and paid a fair wage.
Some ranchers are black listed by the cowboy community for different reasons- some do not treat their help with respect, some will not keep their houses safe to live in, some choose to hire illegals. A rancher that has hired illegals for 20 years will have a hard time hiring cowboys because they are blacklisted, why would a citizen cowboy try to get a job with them- they have proven they prefer illegals. If they choose to change the way they do things they can certainly hire citizen cowboys and have no issues.
What gripes me about this whole situation is someone like you that has no idea what he is talking about saying there are no citizen cowboys that will work on those ranches because they are remote or whatever. You have no clue, working cowboys prefer to be remote- we always did. Cowboys do not have to be “local”- local to what? There are cowboys that grew up in Nevada working in AZ- there are cowboys from Texas working here, some that grew up here working all over. Real cowboys are not scared of work that is for sure. It is not a life that is for everyone but those of us that do it love what we do and wouldn’t trade it for anything. If those ranchers want cowboys they can find them- they need to get connected to the cowboy community and be willing to do their part.
Ranchers that hire illegals are STEALING from taxpayers and they are lying about why they do it so they sound better. Ranchers that hire illegals to save money are also UNFAIRLY competing with ranchers that hire citizens. I am so tired of hearing the citizens won’t work that hard or live remote- lies, lies and more lies. My people do “jobs Americans won’t do” every day so I am really sick of that B.S. mantra.
You support open borders and illegal immigration and do not have the guts to admit it. It is easy to see from your posts. You think illegals are needed to keep this country going and that is simply not true. You are either being shady about how you really feel or you are totally clueless.