[bray]

There are no alternatives from this group to Mexicans planting and picking the lettuce. Just get rid of the Mexicans period.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[SoldierDad]

Some here seem to think that all that “we” need to do is round up these people enmass and deport them. I can see many problems with this thinking. I’m not sure why others cannot see those same problems.

[Eaker]

Proponents of a new temporary worker program argue that increased immigration enforcement would lead to fewer illegal agricultural workers and, as a consequence, the American consumer would face a major increase in the cost of food. This is factually incorrect according to experts. Dr. Philip Martin, a leading academic authority on agricultural labor, notes that American consumers now spend more on alcoholic beverages on average than they spend on fresh fruits and vegetables.1

An average household currently spends about $370 per year on fruits and vegetables. If curtailing illegal alien agricultural labor caused tighter labor conditions and a 40 percent increase in wages, the increased cost to the American family would be $9 a year, or about 2.4 cents per day. Yet for the farm laborer, the change would mean an increase in earnings from $8,800 to $12,350 for each 1,000 hours of work (25 weeks if the worker worked 40-hour weeks). That increase would move the worker from beneath the federal poverty line to above it. 2

Here is the Link. Read it and refute it.