[tobyhill]

I'll pay more too for goods picked by Americans but will there be enough American Workers at 4.7% unemployment to do the job even if it did pay $10 an hour?

[RHINO369]

Of course there'd be enough. Teenagers are a huge somewhat untapped labor market. Not only that but when it becomes economically feasible an electrical engineer and a mechanical engineer will decide to create an automatic tomato picker, and the costs will tumble.

There is no labor shortage, its just that large corporate farms refuse to pay livable wages. So they import illegal labor and make the tax payers cover the cost of housing, feeding, and health care for the illegals. That tomato costs more than you're paying at the market.