You been watching the news...right? And I didn't mean to just talk of farming. You heard about the incident in which black American laborers were let go in Louisiana and Mississippi when the "Mexicans" arrived to do their work in Katrina damaged areas...right? That is the type of "dislocation" I was talking about!
You mentioned your own children could not get work. I was hoping to get some firsthand feedback from you. I have quite a few nieces and nephews in the college age bracket. They all have summer jobs, so I was wondering what you could illustrate as a specific problem in Virginia.
Re black vs mexican workers in Louisiana - I wonder what more there is to that story, but that situation is not why I responded to your post.
Why do we feed hundreds of needy men every day in Baltimore and then have our Senator beg Congress for a increase in the number of legal imported laborers to pick crabs on the Eastern Shore? Cannot the needy men in Baltimore pick crabs as well as Central Americans? There are lots of inconsistencies in labor practices that can be studied forever. I wanted to learn more about what farmers in Virginia were doing about foreign vs American laborers.