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Related: About this forumIf America is overrun by low-skilled migrants...
If America is overrun by low-skilled migrants......then why are fruit and vegetables rotting in the fields waiting to be picked?
Print edition | United States Jul 27th 2017 | SANTA PAULA, CALIFORNIA
NEAR the massive packing warehouse at the headquarters of Limoneira, one of Americas largest lemon producers, sits a row of small white clapboard houses with neat front lawns and American flags flapping over their doorways.
The homes are rented to farm workers at 55% below the market rate in Santa Paula, California, a fertile farming area not far from the seaside homes of Malibu. From their front doors, workers can stroll to a bocce court, a credit union and a park where family reunions and birthdays are celebrated. These perks, along with competitive pay, used to be enough to keep Limoneiras fields of lemons and avocados full of workers.
Not any more, says Alex Teague, the companys senior vice-president. Though labour has long been tight, I have never seen it this bad, Mr Teague sighs from a chair in his office whose walls are covered in company memorabilia, including Limoneiras first cheque from 1893.
Across America, farms are experiencing similar troubles. In May Tom Nassif, the president of Western Growers, a farming association representing family farmers in Arizona, California, Colorado and New Mexico, travelled to Washington, DC, with 25 farm-owners. When Senator Dianne Feinstein of California asked how many were experiencing labour shortages, they all raised their hands.
https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21725608-then-why-are-fruit-and-vegetables-rotting-fields-waiting-be-picked-if-america
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If America is overrun by low-skilled migrants... (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Aug 2017
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Stargazer99
(2,576 posts)1. thank the gop for their rank stupidity
Doreen
(11,686 posts)2. Where are all of the white men who were complainig that
they had no jobs because the immigrants have them? OK, boys there are jobs now. Get off your white fat lazy asses and get to work.
atreides1
(16,067 posts)3. As I understand it!
There are tens of thousands of coal miners, currently unemployed! So, why not direct them to where these jobs are located and get them back to work, earning a paycheck?
Granted in many circumstances it's seasonal work, but it's got to be better then sitting around, collecting unemployment, and bitching about the very government that's sending you those checks!
lunasun
(21,646 posts)4. But the unemployed white trumpets??
SunSeeker
(51,523 posts)5. K & R