” Native born aren’t keen on picking at the rates that are paid, “
It’s amazing how agriculture always turns out to be the one sphere of the economy where the free market just doesn’t work.
Wages never will adjust to attract the needed workers, and the only solution is to import an endless stream of foreign nationals, most of them illegal.
End welfare - ALL welfare ... Boot out the illegals at the muzzle of a rifle or the point of a bayonet ... Then tell the welfare queens,and their impregnators, to “go work in the fields, or go stave - we really don’t give a FK either way.”
If any farmer or rancher hires an illegal - fine him his entire worth, confiscate his property and auction it off to help pay for “THE WALL” - then strip him of his citizenship and throw him out of the country.
No mercy, no quarter. That is how you stop this crap.