Now the Mexican Farmers are complaining! maybe there having trouble finding cheap labor ...... why pick tomatoes when you can cross the boarder and get it all ... a job picking tomatoes, free education for the kiddies, free health care for the whole clan .... and .... if you work it out just right ... gov. subsidies out the yang. ya , I bet those mexican farmers WILL have a hard time competing.
That's the reason they CAN'T compete ---they only have cheap labor and that does nothing at all to make a farm efficient. Machines do that and the Mexican farmers have not been allowed to get machines. The reason a farmworker in Mexico can make $0.30 an hour but if the exact same guy gets to the USA, he can make $4.00 an hour is because here he gets to use decent machines. Cheap labor isn't all that cheap ---machines bring efficiency.