Posted on 04/08/2024 9:41:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Let's file this one in the "you can't make this up" category.
Down Mexico way, they are running out of farm workers.
For decades, Mexicans crossed the border to pick Americans’ lettuce, grapes and strawberries. Mexico had a seemingly inexhaustible supply of farmhands — tough, hard-working men who did the jobs most Americans didn’t want.But the country is running short of farmworkers.The workforce is graying; nearly three-quarters of Mexican campesinos are over 45. Young people are turning up their noses at farm jobs. And those willing to do migrant work have other options. Nearly 300,000 a year travel to the United States on seasonal agricultural visas, a fourfold increase in a decade.
“They’re taking a significant percentage of the available workers,” fretted Aldo Mares, a farm executive here in Jalisco state. He’s had to scramble this season to find workers to pick his juicy strawberries, blackberries and raspberries.
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How are you gonna keep them down on the farm?
Its a global phenomenon
the pineapple crop in Thailand depends on most illegal migrants from Myanmar/Burma
Thais also do not want to work outdoors in the Tropical sun
“For decades, Mexicans crossed the border to pick Americans’ lettuce, grapes and strawberries”
And use those fields as their own personal toilets.
Last time I checked, E. coli doesn’t appear spontaneously in produce.
Understandable. Why work in Mexico when you can sneak into the US and get free healthcare, social security payments, up to $1500/mo housing subsidies, plus other payments and not work at all?
Ask yourself this: Who are the idiots in this scenario?
ROTF laughing my breakfast burrito off. Nope, you can’t make this up. ELMO Dumbelldore allowed all his workers to escape his crap hole and move to America “for a better life” picking strawberries for the gringos. Funny stuff.
According to leftists life spontaneously appeared on this planet......................
Farming can stand some automation.
The results of ones actions leading to unintentional consequences. open borders. f you america.. no mexico. f you!! pick your own damn lettuce.
It’s basic economics. The United States is incentivizing them to come across legally and do the work here.
Oops, a big slip up-——Obrador didnt think that one through.
And what, he was asked on TV talk, would happen if the U.S.
were to refuse Mexico’s blackmail threats? Obrador abruptly snapped:
“The flow of migrants to the US will continue” - a stark unequivocal admission that he, Obrador himself, has all the power to stop, or turn on, illegals pouring into the U.S.
This is what’s driving the Mexican greedster. He figures its worth the risk........
the more migrants he let’s through his border, the more remittances go back to Mexico.
SAN DIEGO (Border Report—Feb 8, 2024)
More than $63 billion in remittances were sent to Mexico in 2023,
with most of the money arriving from the US, according to
Banxico, Mexico’s central bank.
The figure is a 7% hike from the previous year.
“And use those fields as their own personal toilets.”
Always disturbing. We’d drive through hundreds of acres of crops in CA with hundreds of pickers. But not one toilet in sight.
Virtually all the crops mentioned can be picked by machines.
In states other then California they are.
In the ‘70s, the UFW made a deal with Jerry Brown to stop all state funds into research on ag automation. Gotta keep those campesino armies workin’ in the patch, right?
Automation is all over the place. Except for the “technology capitol of America”. Whatta laugh.
Mexico won’t care. The remittances and cartels will bring in more money that their agricultural crops.
Do y’all know why there is a summer break from school?
So kids can work the Fields helping with the Harvest.
I did one summer in WA state . Picked berries at a farm for extra money for me. pay was on a per pail basis, within daylight hours, you set your own pace and hours. Aunt and uncle provided three hots and a “Cot” (warm place to live). If I wanted any spending money I had to go earn it, so I did.
“not one toilet in sight”
Apparently Hispanics don’t mind doing their business wherever......a few years ago we reroofed our house. The crew the roofing sent was of course a bunch of Mexicans.
Over the course of two days I noticed they never left my property but the roofing company provided no portable facilities for them.
After the job was completed and they were gone I did a perimeter search for roofing nails in the yard and discovered they had apparently been relieving themselves on the back corner of the house.
Fortunately it’s vinyl so I was able to pressure wash it......from a safe distance of course.
California will be short too as the farm workers make more by staying home. Why work and lose your government handouts?
Most unfortunate: “..who did the jobs most Americans didn’t want.”
Most Americans? You mean those Americans who already had jobs that paid more than field work? Those in school at all levels? In the military? In government jobs? On Wall Street? Running small businesses? In professional and college sports? Those most Americans?
And that, for the available Americans, doing jobs that Americans didn’t want at the wages being offered.
Jobs too dirty, too oppressive, too crippling for Americans. But just right for the little brown people?
It’s a stupid racist meme repeated by people without thinking.
Without remittances Mexicans would be eating each other in a month.
My first job outside the home was in 1962, at age 7, when I was picking marionberries for a silver quarter per gallon bucket. Would leave the house around 4:30 to catch the bus about half a mile away for an hour ride to the fields and get home around 2 or 3 in the afternoon. An average day brought in around $3.00, which was true wealth to me then. Saved up for my first bicycle.
I don’t think they even let kids work in the fields now.
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