[P-Marlowe]

How much will we have to pay Americans to do these hard dirty jobs so that they will take them? What would it take for YOU to bend down and pick lettuce 12 hours a day in 100 degree weather?

No matter what you paid for “stoop labor” there are very few Native Born Americans who are going to do it. So how much for YOU to do it?????

[lentulusgracchus]

Buy a harvester. Invent it if you have to. Cotton is picked by machine now... Quality suffers in comparison with slave-picked and -ginned cotton (that includes Egyptian fellah-picked cotton, the best quality), but you can sleep at night and get a crop in.

[central_va]

The NAWS uses the following response categories for ethnicity: Mexican-American, Mexican, Chicano, Puerto Rican, other Hispanic, and not Hispanic or Latino. In 2001-2002, 83 percent of the crop workers identified themselves as members of a Hispanic group: 72 percent as Mexican, seven percent as Mexican-American, one percent as Chicano, and three percent as other Hispanic. Only 16 percent of U.S. crop workers self identified as belonging to an ethnic group that was not Hispanic or Latino. Ethnicity labels, however, are somewhat arbitrary as they are based on multiple characteristics such as cultural heritage, nationality, and racial background. For example, 17 percent of the U.S.-born crop workers self identified as Mexican-American and four percent as Mexican.

Right now 16% of Ag workers are non-Hispanic, they are doing the hard work now.