Someone who believes that the corn price is so low that Mexicans can’t afford to grow it while at the same time believing the corn price is so high that no one can afford to eat meat is not usually someone from whom one can learn.
If every laborer on corn farm in Iowa was an illegal alien, how many people that be?
If every meat packer in Iowa was an illegal alien, how many people would that be?
The ethanol subsidies that King and Grassley deliver are worth more than cheap labor to the corn farmers.
Cheap labor is probably 5th or 10th on what Corn farmers want.
I believe there are illegals on corn farms.
But for every illegal on a corn farm there’s probably 100 or 1000 working somewhere else.
2 Different issues and 2 different groups of illegal aliens.
Let’s assume 30,000 illegals work on meat packing plants and there are 1,000 illegals on corn farms, which is the bigger problem and which industry has more at stake if the illegals disappear?