Posted on 10/08/2007 6:32:46 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Farmers in and around the Bay Area are starting to feel the pinch from tighter border security and visa requirements, NBC11's Daniel Garza reported Monday.
Some farmers told Garza they expect some of their fields to remain unpicked.
Some said they believe their fields will end up filled with rotting produce.
The Bush administration has learned of the possible loss of millions of dollars for thousands of farmers throughout the country, and is attempting to loosen visa requirements for workers.
However, farmers told Garza the attempt is "too little too late."
(Excerpt) Read more at nbc11.com ...
If you can't find the labor you want and need for your business, then here's some free capitalist advice: Go out of business like the failure you are.
Don't come crying to government that American laws need to be changed in order to serve you.
Put this guy in jail for aiding and abetting illegals KNOWINGLY, and in violation of Federal Law.
Then they weren’t offering to pay enough wages for the work. IF they would pay more, they’d had plenty of people out there to pick the veggies.
Pick it yourselves and your kids too.
They are here, unofficial estimates up to 38 million, either there has been too little advertising, or not enough pay, or something. No more are needed from south of the border. It is clear with all the housing construction layoffs, laborers do not want to work in the fields either.
‘We Don’t Have Enough Workers, Produce May Rot In Fields’
...too f-in bad, so f-in sad! I’d rather pay $20.00 for a pound of carrots picked by legals than $2.00 for a pound picked by illegals.
Would the MSM give sympathetic coverage to a factory owner wanting to use child labor?
May I suggest the obvious? Instead of importing slaves from Mexico, why don’t they pay a “living wage?”
What did they do all these years without the illegals????
LET IT ROT!
Better yet, invest in machines that can do the picking instead of relying on illegals.
It’s called hire some local unemployed people. Maybe offer a better price than the dirt-low wages you can get away with paying illegals. Do what every other business does and pass along the increase to the consumer. They will pay more for good produce. If prices are artificially low, then they should rise to whatever the market will set them at. Besides, the rich will feel less guilty because they will be doing ‘penance’ and paying more. They always think they are being so humanitarian when they have to fork out more money for things.
Why did he plant it then?
Kind of presumptuous of him.
Cut off the welfare checks to all able-bodied freeloading Americans and watch as they suddenly find themselves motivated to work.
This is very intensive, hand picking, back breaking work.
Not condusive to machinery.
Excellent idea. Excellent idea. John Deere or Caterpillar should be able to figure out some good machines for these crops.
They should pay what legal people are willing to work for.
I read just this morning there are 38,000,000 illegals in this country. Who is lying...
This smells, I drove I-5 from Modesto to Sac last week and there is very little “produce” left in the fields. I saw mostly corn and the produce stands had pretty much closed down for the year. There maybe some lettuce left around Salinas but the story is misleading.
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