“Yes, and another article in the Augusta Chronicle was about farmers having to struggle and face crops rotting in their fields because Mexican workers are choosing to leave like y’all want.”
Guess they’ll have to pay higher wages then.
tapatio had the only interesting response, where Colorado is using low-risk inmate labor for $9.50 an hour and has 4,500 sign-ups who love it and are making $4 an hour instead of peanuts.
To the others lusting after higher priced vegetable commodities, peanuts are harvested in September by machine. Right now, eggplant, watermelons, cantaloup, peaches, beans and tomatos are needing harvesting, all requiring hard labor in sweltering heat and humidity, unlike Colorado. As well, many Sheriffs have been investigated for using inmate labor for their own enrichment in this state.
Why would real conservatives embrace a system that rewards local yokel county Sherrifs with seized assets under questionable forfeitures, encouraging planting of evidence, and then utilizing the cheap labor obtained by ridiculous drug and moonshining laws? The jerks in my county drive around in leather upholstered cars, and have nothing more to do than investigate stolen tools from a pickup truck or bashed mailboxes.
Finally, the first generation of Central Americans are hardworking Christians. Usually it is their children, nurtured by our own public education system, who turn into gangster, drunken turrds.