Maybe if these luxury crops can't be sold economically without resorting to illegal labor, they should be replaced with other products that are more economical.

Maybe if these luxury crops can't be sold economically without resorting to illegal labor, they should be replaced with other products that are more economical. I can go pick my own strawberries in New England when they are in season for $1-2 a pound. That season might only be about three or four weeks in June/July, but there's other stuff the other eleven months of the year. If I want fresh strawberries in December, they ought to be at a premium. We used to use a lot of teen-aged labor for this kind of low-skill seasonal work, and I don't necessarily think there's anything wrong with that. There's still parts of Aroostook county in Maine where they have a weird school year, because traditionally they needed every warm body to get the potato harvest picked in early fall.