Please explain what jobs you think corn farmers employ illegals to do.
“We have agricultural subsidies at the federal level that are huge,” says Dr. Robert Peace, a professor of accounting at NC State and author of the paper. “For example, corn is highly subsidized. Because of our subsidies, and the North American Free Trade Agreement, U.S. farmers can sell corn in Mexico cheaper than Mexican farmers can grow it. As a result, since farm workers can’t make any money farming in Mexico, they come to the United States as migrant workers. Poverty fuels migration.”
Better Enforcement of Existing Migrant Worker Protection Laws Needed