Rubio is 100% wrong to suggest, let alone try to force on us, a massive influx of illegal labor because some employers like to pay them squat and have government benefits make up the difference.
We have enough garbage men to clean our streets because we pay them a market rate, and our agriculture industry would modernize and be just fine if they did the same.
Sure, we should reform our welfare system, but that’s no excuse for importing millions of illegals.
You have correctly identified the problem on this thread: two subjects are being intermingled, and that’s no way to discuss or solve a problem.
Taken in the context of illegal immigration, Rubio’s remarks rightly rankle.
Taken as a comment on the sad state of our society, they are right on.
And you, sir, apparently know very little about agriculture. It is already highly modernized, but there are just some things that machines can’t do. As long as affordable labor is eager to do that work, everybody benefits.
The problem is that this is not your grandfather’s America, and those folks Rubio was talking about aren’t about to get dirty and sweaty and miserable enough to harvest those crops. Unless, of course, you pay them high union wages.
In which case, you can’t afford the product.
It’s a mess, but it’s not going to be solved properly until a bunch of us quit spouting bromides and deal with facts.
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