BS I worked in Ag my whole life.
Farmers just want free labor.
Farming is the reason we face the immigration issues we do.
You perhaps have worked in agriculture your whole life...and how many years has that been. Also your profile says you are from California.....has it occurred to you that the socialist shittehole you live in is just one of 49 other states...Farming is not the reason that we face the immigration issues we do in the other 49 states...what a stupid statement!
E-verify is just another ploy used by government to force employers to do the job they refuse to do.
Farmers want their crops farmed and harvested. I know, I am one. The amount of labor dollars as a percent of the selling price of a pound of fruit is not material. I would glady pay double what I pay now for a secure source of labor because I can pass those costs on without greatly effecting the retail price to the consumer. It is naive to believe that the issue is money. People say if you increase the pay then you can get all the labor you want. Farms are in rural communities where there aren’t large population bases. South Carolina tried hiring welfare recipients and parolees to work in the field. About 1/3 quit after a couple of hours and the majority of the rest didn’t show up the next day. I want the borders secure as much as the rest of you but I also want to support my family, protect the business I have given my life to and to ensure that America isn’t importing all of it’s food from other countries. The answer is to guard our borders and put a viable guest worker program in place. Don’t know where you have worked NotLib Zone but you are very off base in your statement. This is a very difficult problem and to dismiss good hard working people who work the land as just greedy is flat out wrong.