[FBD]

More guest workers are the bureaucrat solution.
The free market solution to “jobs that Americans will not do” :

Mechanization
“An Eye to the Future”
http://www.oxbocorp.com/
“In the past few years, OXBO has led the mechanical harvesting revolution in Florida's citrus industry to help relieve continually increasing labor pressures.”
Oranges:
“In most of US agriculture, productivity was raised by substituting capital for labor, or using machines to save labor, with the result that the fewer remaining farmers and farm workers had higher incomes. “
“A mechanical harvester costs about $200,000, and replaces 20 to 30 hand harvesters who earn an average $7,000; growers need at least 600 acres to justify the machine. The Coe Orchard trunk-shaker harvests 240 to 480 boxes an hour, while the average hand harvester picks nine boxes an hour. The machine works best on large acreages of uniformly spaced trees that are pruned to expedite mechanical harvesting.”

Machines…“doing the jobs that Americans refuse to do.”

“OXBO is coming to the aid of vineyard growers who also face the challenges of significant hand labor requirements. OXBO can now offer grape growers Total Vineyard Mechanization™ for all tasks from precision box pruning and shoot thinning to harvesting.”

[Yaelle]

Excellent post.

It has been proven that with cheap (basically slave) labor, one takes away the motivation for ingenuity. Technological advances in strawberry picking, say, will only come around when the pickers must receive a decent wage and benefits. Suddenly someone will invent the mechanical strawberry picker.