I was thinking of the days before these machines were developed. And you make a good point about the skilled legal hands that operate this machinery. Get rid of these illegals and farmers would invest in more machinery. My point is that American citizens used to do all the work that needed to be done. During the depression I worked topping carrots from dawn to dusk for 9 cents a bushel. We Americans, many of us legal immigrants, did those jobs in those days.
We also did this kind of work. My dad worked in the oil field and also had our farm. He worked on the farm in the morning then turned it over to us (my brother and I) in the afternoon when he went to his oil field job. The three of us did all the work and didn’t need hired hands of any kind. We did the hoeing, plowing, harvesting, feeding the cattle, branding cattle, etc. ourselves. Welfare has ruined this country. The people that used to do the work that the illegals are doing find it more profitable and easier than having to work for a living. We would have never considered getting on public assistance. We were raised to take care of ourselves and let others do the same. We didn’t have much more than the bare necessities but at least we could hold our head up and know that what we had came from our efforts and not from the efforts of someone else.