Yes, lets assume a worker picks 60 heads of lettuce in an hour (far less than actual, but stay with me here). We pay illegal immigrants, what, $3.00 and hour? So, the cost to pick lettuce is about 5 cents a piece (5 cents times 60 = $3.00)
If we no longer had illegals to pick lettuce, lets assume we had to pay someone $20 an hour. The cost of picking lettuce would now be about 33 cents per head. So paying $20 an hour for lettuce picking would add a whopping 28 cents to the cost of a head of lettuce. Big frickin deal.
May not be a big deal to you, but it is a big deal to the farmer you are willing to bankrupt. So you get rid of all those ‘greedy’ farmers, who you going to have grow our food?? You?
Right now you have the market picking the crops, so let the market do its job like it has for hundreds of years. There is no difference tween ‘conservatives’ interfering w/the Market and Libs, they both cause inefficiencies.
Document these workers as Guest Workers and put up the fence. Then you have the Baby and the Bathwater.
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