"right?"
you and "your friends" need to go back to school and take English comprehension.
Because no where did I admit that "you were right!"
Then after completing English comprehension and business administration, marketing & sales maybe, just maybe you and "your friends" could make a living doing something else and how to operate another business profitably because they obviously don't know how to operate a farm profitably.
Now, that is R...I...G...H...T
In a way, farmers who need illegal immigration to make ends meet are much like the infamous welfare queens that Reagan mentioned in the 1980 election campaign, just the farmers get an indirect subsidy by the non enforcement of immigration laws.
You, sir, have not displayed any knowledge of the current conditions in the topic of this article - orcharding in Washington. I have not only provided the anecdotal information relayed to me by Washington orchardists, I actually took the trouble to provide an explicit reference to the topic at hand.
You, OTOH, have provided 40-year old -- and therefore wholly obsolete -- anecdotes from your extensive box-lifting experience in California.
You did refer to your friend in the fruit business. So we've got competing "friend information." However, because he is not an orchardist, and he is not in Washington, "my friends" who are actually in the business are in a better position to provide good information than "your friend" is. Moreover, I suspect that your friend probably wouldn't agree with much of what you've said.