Fearing a worker shortage, farmers push back on immigration

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Last edited Mon Apr 24, 2017, 10:18 AM - Edit history (1)

Not exactly LBN. This was pointed out in a thread about the wall that - trust me - someone else will pay for. You just need to pay the remittance fees at John F. Kennedy Airport.

Trump's hard line against illegal immigration sends chill through agricultural industry, @andrewselsky reports.

Link to tweet

Fearing a worker shortage, farmers push back on immigration

By ANDREW SELSKY

Today

JUNCTION CITY, Ore. (AP) — The head of Bethel Heights Vineyard looked out over the 100 acres of vines her crew of 20 Mexicans had just finished pruning, worried about what will happen if the Trump administration presses ahead with its crackdown on immigrants.

From tending the plants to harvesting the grapes, it takes skill and a strong work ethic to produce the winery's pinot noir and chardonnay, and native-born Americans just aren't willing to work that hard, Patricia Dudley said as a cold rain drenched the vineyard in the hills of Oregon.

"Who's going to come out here and do this work when they deport them all?" she asked.

I suspect she could find locals to do the work, if she were to try that free enterprise thing of offering higher wages.

[Lotusflower70]

1. It's all about money

They have been able to exploit immigrant workers and losing that would interfere with their profits. So many people are ungrateful for the hard work they do. When my parents first came here, they worked in the fields all day in the hot sun. Hardest working people and they get shit on. It makes me sick.