[Bikers4Bush]

The inability to find workers stems from the fact that they are being illegally employed in just about every other business in the nation, not that any mythical crackdown is having an impact.

[TheDon]

I don't mind paying more for my oranges and orange juice. Offer more to the orange pickers!

[stuartcr]

What's Jeb say about this?

[TLI]

28 MILLION illegal aliens and not enough to pick fruit. Just what jobs DO they have???

[ClearCase_guy]

Yesterday we had a thread about strawberry harvests going unpicked.

Here's the thing: If the employer will pay a decent wage, workers will show up. It's supply and demand.

The notion that Americans won't do this work is not a reflection on American workers. It may possibly be a reflection on the employers.

[Brilliant]

We've got 11 illegal aliens. They are supposedly doing these jobs that Americans don't want.

[cripplecreek]

Oh well, if I need oranges that bad I'll pay more for them.

[Brilliant]

We've got 11 million illegal aliens. They are supposedly doing these jobs that Americans don't want.

[Lexington Green]

Pay American Pickers American Wages

[rhombus]

The seasonal price for both cherries and blueberries is very cheap this year. I paid $2 a pint for blueberries and $2.99 a pound for cherries. If American growers cannot find sufficient labor to harvest crops (cherries, blueberries, oranges, etc.), South American growers will step up and fill the void. We've all seen this before in other industries.

[DeFault User]

After they invented those refrigerated cases through which you reach and pick oranges off the tree, I thought they had eliminated the need for field hands.

;o)

[Zeppelin]

wouldnt be a bad summer job for high school kids sitting at home...

[TheSpottedOwl]

Non violent offenders. They can pay off their court costs, the prison can recoup the cost to house them, and the prisoner gets a trust fund set up for use upon release. And the oranges will get picked!!!

[hgro]

Roll up your pant legs, the B.S. is just beginning.

[Red Badger]

Why pick oranges when you can hang sheetrock?............

[VOA]

As many as 6 million boxes of oranges may go unharvested in Florida
this year because of a shortage of fruit pickers made worse by fears about
what changes may come in immigration law.

Nah, it's just the free market at work.
There's a bunch of crews of (almost certainly) illegals doing the
re-roofing in Columbia, MO.
(there was a large and intense hail storm in March and damage is still
being repaired)

[A CA Guy]

Being employers have allowed illegals into the construction and restaurant industry, why should the illegals want to now go pick fruit? They have it easy elsewhere IMO.

[durasell]

Blame it on the juice!

[joe fonebone]

If I was a businessman, and decided to leave my product in the warehouse, instead of shipping it for sale, i would be out of business, and someone else would probably buy my business and/or take over my customer base at a minimum. Seems to me these particular businessmen are heading down the same road. Now, if only we could end those peskie government subsidiaries.....

[mysterio]

I suppose if they can't find workers at the wage they are offering, they will have to offer a higher wage and charge more for the fruit.