[ruralvoter]

Great. Now the illegals will flow into NC and FL. FL - you really blew it by not passing immigration legislation this year.

[max americana]

>Great. Now the illegals will flow into NC and FL

Well, they cant come from here in mexifornia because I still avoid 100 mexicans in the parking lot just to enter Home Depot.

[babygene]

So what’s wrong with upping the wages and the price of berries so that American’s can pick them?

[Iron Munro]

Many of the people who picked crops in bygone years are now paid by the government to sit on their butts, do drugs and watch Oprah all day. She’s gone now so they’ll have to stay with BET or Jerry Springer.

Teen agers used to take summer jobs picking but the government ended that with restrictive Nanny State labor laws.

[apillar]

What a shame, they'll lose their quasi-slave labor and may actually have to start paying as high as minimum wage to get their crops harvested. I have little compassion for those in agriculture and construction who are at least partly responsible for the Illegal problem. I have family members that actually made a good middle-class living in the 1960’s and 1970’s doing roofing, until the roofing companies discovered they could pay illegals under the table to do the same work for 1/5 the wage.

[freekitty]

This stuff can be done legally.

[moonshinner_09]

Anybody on welfare and food stamps who is phyically able should be made to go out and work picking crops or lose their benefits. It’s time they gave back.

[HiJinx]

Ping!

[blueplum]

10 percent unemployment average nationwide, 50% unemployment amongst black youth and there’s a shortage of berry pickers?

somebody needs to advertise

[Loyal Sedition]

Mechanize.

Oh I know, “We don’t have the harvesting machines for this crop”.

That’s true only because there has been no real motivation to design and produce them since illegal alien labor is cheap and abundant.

Once machines make more economic sense than quasi-slavery they will be produced and purchased.
Who harvest wheat with a hand held scythe anymore?.
Is anyone still commercially picking cotton by hand in this country?

Innovation and engineering, an area where the U.S. led before PC and the welfare state.

[ZULU]

If these farms can’t operate WITHIN the law they should go out of business - period.