Posted on 02/23/2017 12:27:49 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Bracero program worked so well, why and who ended it?
Tell some of our 94 million domestic dole leeches to get off the couch and go pick some strawberries.
Cheap labor has been retarded progress in automatic picking machines for years. With the birth of real AI in the last few years machines are going to end up doing 95% of all farm labor once the illegals are sent home.
And, there is the H2A program that a lot of the fruit growers in Washington State are using. It isn’t easy, but it is the best that is available right now.
Cause and effect: We need them because the government pays our native born low skilled labor pool to sit on the porch and talk on Obamaphones.
An entitled Hippy who has never grown up writes a chamber of amnesty rant whilst placing his misspent youth on a pedestal.
I read the article so you don’t have to, and it’s time I will never get back.
RE: The Bracero program worked so well, why and who ended it?
The Cesar Chavez led United Farm Workers union (UFW) destroyed it.
The UFW during Chavez’s tenure was committed to restricting immigration.
Chavez and Dolores Huerta, cofounder and president of the UFW, fought the Bracero Program that existed from 1942 to 1964. Their opposition stemmed from their belief that the program undermined U.S. workers and exploited the migrant workers.
Since the Bracero Program ensured a constant supply of cheap immigrant labor for growers, immigrants could not protest any infringement of their rights, lest they be fired and replaced. They also believe that the program contributed to wage competition in a race to the bottom.
Their efforts contributed to Congress ending the Bracero Program in 1964.
Right - they work the season then go back to Mexico until next year. I’m still wondering who ended the Bracero program. I’m thinking it was Reagan when he was governor but not sure.
The only reason human labor is used is because it’s less expensive. If it’s cheaper to have machines do it someone would invent a machine. Get rid of cheap labor and farmers will either pay more or get a machine.
Great. Thanks for that information.
Because why pay for automation if you have cheap labor? Raise the price of labor and farmers will suddenly discover that they can automate.
It’s kind of funny. I got an email yesterday from a young man I know. He was asking if a friend of mine, who is a contractor might consider hiring him.
This young man has in the last year or so grown out his hair to be 12-14” long.
In my return email, I said that for him to be taken seriously as an employee, cutting the hair would be highly recommended. He emailed back and told me that he was planning to do so shortly.
That’s goo. I know another kid who will never get past McDonald’s partly because he looks like a stoner. He’s not. He’s actually a good Christian young man with high morals, but he doesn’t look like it.
No we don’t.
We’ve got the innovation to deal with it on our own. Technology, improving the jobs generally, making appealing short-term jobs for college students, etc.
Kellyanne Conway grew up as a champion blueberry picker—and she turned out okay.
Use chain gangs.
Seriously. Put low risk prisoners to work.
Grrr...
It will be a magnificent wall, with beautiful big doors.
5.56mm
And just think, you don’t even have to pay for a gym membership, you’ll get plenty of exercise picking vegetables.
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