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I doubt anyone will read my comment, but here goes.

Lots of Mexicans are now in Canada, as the currency issue, and an abundance of jobs up there, is a better deal. Also, you simple have a situation where the economy in Mexico just might be good enough to keep folks at home???

One of my best friends is in AG in E Washington. As far as machinery goes, nothing replaces the human hand, to keep fruits from breaking and bruising.

Finally, it is beyond silly and STUPID to think that just because you raise wages to a “livable standard” that your average educated American has even the slightest interest in picking fruit for a frickin living. Get real why don’t you?

Oh, yeah, and like the welfare crowd would do it, just because it paid decent? Nothing better than being paid to do nothing, in their minds.

That's all very agreeable, but those are practical considerations that divert focus from this important point: Don't plant crops, and then expect others to facilitate their harvest.

Not by illegals, nor by privileged government programs that would make them temporarily legal.

File for bankruptcy instead. Everyone else does when they make bad investments, and farmers should too.

"Lots of Mexicans are now in Canada, as the currency issue, and an abundance of jobs up there, is a better deal."

I guess you don't have any problem with people having to leave their homes to pick fruit as illegal aliens in order to support their families, and since these people are barely above subsistence level, what American products are they buying that allows them to take advantage of the "currency issue" as you call it?

"Finally, it is beyond silly and STUPID to think that just because you raise wages to a “livable standard” that your average educated American has even the slightest interest in picking fruit for a frickin living. Get real why don’t you?"

It's not "your average educated American" we're talking about here, it's the losers that didn't apply themselves in school or didn't think that they needed an education when they grew up. Why should I be forced to pay for their stupidity via welfare? There are innumerable opportunities for everyone in this country, the only lower class citizens are those that choose to be so, they can be the pick fruit pickers.

"Oh, yeah, and like the welfare crowd would do it, just because it paid decent? Nothing better than being paid to do nothing, in their minds."

Hence my new tag line.