[Servant of the 9]

Before machines picked the corn and wheat people said the same thing. When the slaves were freed people said who's going to pick the cotton. Well, guess what? We have no slaves AND we have cheap cotton.

Machines pick and pack our tomatos, that is why we have to grow our own or find a boutique grower of heirloom varieties somewhere to get an edible tomato.

Mechanization works fine with crops that are already sturdy enough to survive, but no one has yet figured out how to pick delicates mechanically and they have been selling machines to supposedly do it for 50 years.

So9

[Lizavetta]

Wimpy strawberries doesn't justify letting in illegals to do the job. Cut out welfare and let the uneducated pick strawberries. The higher cost of employing Americans will motivate somebody to invent a strawberry picker.