“$36 million a month”
Now that’s alot of heads of lettuce there.
Lou Dobbs had a special report showing why the low wages of illegals only minimally lower the costs of fruits and vegetables to consumers. More important, these low wages retard farm owners from making the capital investment necessary to automate the picking of fruits and vegetables. For example, here in FL the large orange groves are all harvesting oranges with automated machinery. The work is not only more efficiently done but costs consumers LESS than it would if done by cheap labor. It does require a large initial investment but it soon more than pays for itself.