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In the farms, even basic laws banning hiring illegal immigrants get immediately blocked by a coalition of pro-immigration activists and big companies in the ind
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
In the farms, even basic laws banning hiring illegal immigrants get immediately blocked by a coalition of pro-immigration activists and big companies in the industry.
- Aloha 8y agoWithout illegal immigrants crops would literally rot in the fields. I don't like illegal immigration, I'd rather there be a easy legal program to allow temporary workers, but there isn't, and I like eating.
- rhexs 8y agoJust to be clear, you believe you would starve if immigration policy was changed in such a way that farmers received less subsidies and had to pay a fair wage to get work done?
- Aloha 8y agoNo actually. I believe that just deporting the illegal immigrants without fixing the other broken parts of the system that we would have massive crop losses - significant amounts of fresh fruit and vegetables would disappear from shelves.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoThere is a legal guest worker program for unskilled agricultural labor: H-2A. It's not as cheap as hiring itinerant work crews with no visa, though.
- Aloha 8y agoEverything I have read implies that there is a significant paperwork burden with this visa, and the number of people you can get via the program are very limited.
- bkor 8y agoThe Netherlands exports a huge amount of food and loads of the work is fully automated. For the work which isn't there's still a lot of seasonal work. For that they do employ people, often from lower paid countries such as e.g. Poland. Poland isn't far away from The Netherlands. From what I saw in a documentary the Dutch farmers heavily optimize pretty much everything they can, not only through automation.
- Aloha 8y agoIts very hard to automate the picking of fruit and certain vegetables. That's why its not done - for some of them, its currently impossible, and have an acceptable yield rate.