“Without [this guest worker program], I believe agriculture in the US would decline a lot because people there don’t want to do the work,” Mendez said.
As the fate of the hundreds of thousands of undocumented farm workers remains in limbo amid Donald Trump’s mass deportation threats, and the administration’s H-2A policies are undecided, the future of these guest workers remains unclear. Their numbers grow each year – and they are increasingly central to an industry historically dominated by undocumented workers. The industry isn’t creating new jobs either.
Farmers agree with farm workers like Mendez. They say they cannot attract other workers to their rural fields.
This problem literally always existed. I don’t understand why so many people are okay with farms abusing undocumented workers.
Also, americans will do the work if it pays well enough.
You would be amazed how many of them wouldn’t because it’s beneath them whole also crying about how much anyone who does do the work gets paid. Victim complex always comes first.
Well those people were never thinking of anyone but themselves to begin with, so no loss.
a number of farms tried the “pay enough” route. Turns out people won’t do it unless the compensation would put the farm in the red, even then it wouldn’t be popular. We need to completely reform the way deal with food distribution to the general public. Market solutions seem to always mean that they need huge subsidies, and an underclass workforce.