Mexicans Afraid of Being in America Create Farm Worker Shortage – Crops Suffer
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Re: Mexicans Afraid of Being in America Create Farm Worker Shortage – Crops Suffer
#2Would there be a shortage if these jobs paid $20/hr with more comfortable work conditions?
Re: Mexicans Afraid of Being in America Create Farm Worker Shortage – Crops Suffer
#3Would there be a shortage if these jobs paid $20/hr with more comfortable work conditions?
Would there be a shortage if this happened 30 years ago and the work had been even further automated by now?
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#4Would there be a shortage if these jobs paid $20/hr with more comfortable work conditions?
Probably not, but that's not the case now is it..
Re: Mexicans Afraid of Being in America Create Farm Worker Shortage – Crops Suffer
#5Would there be a shortage if these jobs paid $20/hr with more comfortable work conditions?
Probably. NPR ran a story on the radio a few years ago about immigrant workers in geogia and how it was difficult to find people for this.
Heres a link: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/05/27/136718112...
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#6Automation can fix this moving forward but ultimately the lost crops are a result of a bad business decision by the farmers to rely on an an undocumented underpaid labor force without thinking there would ever be any repercussions.
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#7Reminds of what happened in Alabama. Vice did a documentary on it. It was definitely eye opening. The only thing that scares me for this type of labor is the sheer amount of automation being done in farming.( They have these crazy lettuce cutting machines as well as sorting machines.)
>Alabama’s Failed Anti-Immigration Law The state's experiment in "self-deportation" reveals what might happen if the US sent 11 million undocumented workers home.
[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8gk7nx/what-alabamas-fail...]
Re: Mexicans Afraid of Being in America Create Farm Worker Shortage – Crops Suffer
#8We're seeing the same thing in England, with seasonal farm workers not coming over.
Re: Mexicans Afraid of Being in America Create Farm Worker Shortage – Crops Suffer
#9Why are they afraid of being in America?
Re: Mexicans Afraid of Being in America Create Farm Worker Shortage – Crops Suffer
#10Automation can fix this moving forward but ultimately the lost crops are a result of a bad business decision by the farmers to rely on an an undocumented underpaid labor force without thinking there would ever be any repercussions.
How are you as a farmer going to be competitive when your fellow farmers are getting much cheaper labor?
This is an area for regulation (no one raised an eye when they got cheap labor) and economic incentives (NAFTA f'd over Central American economies, commodities market manipulation causes prices to skyrocket in developing markets - both causing mass migrations).