The youth unemployment rate is between 25-50%.
With young people, you teach work ethic and responsibility. With illegals, you get another generation of berry pickers and a culture that produces every social pathology under the sun.
I keep wondering why farmers don't just use mechanical harvesters?
Believe me, if there's a mechanical harvester that will harvest their crop, a farmer will have it. The only way lots of crops can be harvested is by hand labor. Strawberries, squash, okra, avocados etc. and most, if not all of the fruits: apples, grapefruit etc. Also, believe me, somewhere there is an ag engineer working on designing machinery to harvest every crop there is.