I have never seen numbers that are required to handle our crops. Any body ever seen this? As for Mexico, I have heard that there are seven major families that control Mexico.....not the government.
That shouldn’t be too difficult to find out. The problem is, our own government wants to sell us on the notion that these ‘migrant’ workers are spending the money here that they earn here. That’s a bald-faced lie; I know because I was a welfare worker. They go home when the crops are in. They go home for the winter, with American dollars.
“NAWS” data revealed that most farmworkers (81 percent) were foreign born, a 1990s demographic change in rural areas known as “Latinization.” Migrant farmworkers were more likely to be foreign born (nine out of ten) relative to nonmigrants (only two thirds). More than half of farmworkers (52 percent) were unauthorized workers, and only 22 percent were citizens. Of the work-authorized farmworkers, 40 percent were citizens by birth; the rest acquired residence under the special agricultural worker program, family reunification programs, or other legal immigrant channels (Mehta et al., 2000).
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[source: ericdigests.org]
I've heard similar things only not that small a number. The problem in Mexico as I've heard it explained by an Hispanic professor that writes a column for the local paper is:
When Spain colonized the New World, it divided up the territories into Royal Land Grants given to enterprising (usually aristocratic) individuals who would develop them for benefit of the crown. This was essentially a continuation of the feudalistic system still present in Europe at the time. As everyone knows, this system is pretty rigid when it comes to socioeconomic change among individuals.
When Mexico gained its independence, it maintained these Royal Land Grants along with the economic and social order they created. Nothing has changed to this day.
Ironically, one of grievances of the mexican-american advocacy groups is how Texas, upon gaining its independence, abolished the royal land grants therein!