If we cut welfare benefits and strengthened immigration enforcement these jobs would be filled. Guaranteed.
If it’s a choice of harvest the crops or starve, the hard core parasites would choose to starve but most would turn out.
Missing from the debate on both issues is an honest recognition that the food we all eat - at home, in restaurants and workplace cafeterias (including those in the Capitol) - comes to us from the labor of undocumented farm workers.
Agriculture in the United States is dependent on an immigrant workforce. Three-quarters of all crop workers working in American agriculture were born outside the United States. According to government statistics, since the late 1990s, at least 50% of the crop workers have not been authorized to work legally in the United States.
The answer to this, to the extent that it accurately presents the problem, is not allowing illegal immigration and undocumented workers. We have a process for employers to bring in temporary, NON-IMMIGRANT agricultural workers --
If this process doesn't work, fix it. But don't claim the nation will starve unless ILLEGAL immigrants pick our crops.