When I was a teenager, I picked strawberries in the Capistrano Valley, CA. Hardly what one would term, a high horse. There were a number of us teenagers out there picking berries right alongside migrants from Mexico.
When we moved to Oregon, same thing: kids in the fields, working at bringing in crops. Then those fools in Congress made it illegal. Now a number of generations have grown up not understanding the value of hard work and how to earn money.
Yeah, you’re asking for identification. And I understand how you think it unreasonable to do background checks on temporary minimum wage workers. It is unpractical.
But, are you asking to be treated better, or differently, than other employers?
I suspect that farming is changing. See my post at #56. If you do large scale farming and sell to a wholesale distributor you may not like what I said. But I’m very interested to hear what you think, and how the farm system we presently have SHOULD change.
The reason I believe it should change is at the bottom of that post #56.
SatinDoll, the current system is a mess and it is very concerning to those if us who make our livelihood farming. I took to exception to your post because it was an accusation and I apologize for the tone of my response. Since you are honestly interested I will do my best to explain what I would like to see. First, kids in the field, welfare recipients and parolees are not workable solutions. The work is very hard and demanding. A viable and workable guest worker program would be the best solution in my opinion. Couple the guest worker program with a defended border and a workable verification system and we have gone a long way toward solving the problem.