Just give them a green card and send them back home when the strawberries are picked.
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If they have a green card they cant be sent home..
the green card is a permanent resident card which allows them to stay forever..
Its funny. People assume that without them, the fields wouldn’t get picked. My older relatives used to pick those very fields “back in the day”. I admit, things were different, it was harder to get on the dole, and there was a real resistance to taking handouts. So they would travel to California, rent a house for the kids, and work the fields. Some would go back home when the season was over, some stayed and eventually found other work.
But field work got done before. And it would get done even if they secure the border. The wages would go up is what will happen, but it would make very little difference in the price of rutabagas. Most of the cost of produce is in the handling after it leaves the field.