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"Hell, I'll do it for a certain price."
$20 an hour minimum, water breaks every hour, rest period every two hours, minimum half hour for lunch. No work if the temp is 95 or above and shaded rest area required.
It's fucking backbreaking work being bent over all day long, same for picking potatoes by hand. I've done both - it is not fun or easy even for an hour.
Are the consumers willing to pay the increased cost in the produce to support living wages and work conditions ?
The little Mexican girls in the American flag T-shirt’s choked me up a bit. I think of my daughter and her innocence and no knowledge of politics at 4. How filled with hope of a better life she was promised by her parents... and the fear she is probably going through now. It’s just sad.
The moment that npr shows sympathy for a poor American girl, their funding will be cut off.
Satoshi_Nakamoto says
Picking potatoes by hand is idiotic: it's done by the fucking machines.
No - not "everywhere".
Both can be harvested by machine but this is not universal.
If even fucking USSR with all its slave labor did it with machines
It would be far more effective than mere wall. I'd like to hear Trump propose that.
Except for justifying importing more Dem voters from the 3rd-world countries that is.
Both can be harvested by machine but this is not universal.
someone else saysIt would be far more effective than mere wall. I'd like to hear Trump propose that.
Sadly, nothing will be done. E-verify exists, and despite grand posturing, none of R presidents/administrations have done anything to mandate its use. Trump himself hires H visa holders for his hotels - while this is not illegal, I doubt that hotel workers need qualifications that are not available in US.
justme saysBoth can be harvested by machine but this is not universal.
If using illegals is cheaper than using a machine then illegals get used. I've seen foundations dug by hand in cameron county (which include mcallen) because it's cheaper than hiring a back hoe. My plumbing contractor hired 4 illegals to dig a new sewer line from my house to the street because it was cheaper.
Feux Follets saysSatoshi_Nakamoto says
Picking potatoes by hand is idiotic: it's done by the fucking machines.
No - not "everywhere".
Both can be harvested by machine but this is not universal.
It should be universal. If even fucking USSR with all its slave labor did it with machines there is no fucking reason to keep doing it here manually almost 30 years later.
Except for justifying importing more Dem voters from the 3rd-world countries that is.
Satoshi_Nakamoto saysFeux Follets saysSatoshi_Nakamoto says
Picking potatoes by hand is idiotic: it's done by the fucking machines.
No - not "everywhere".
Both can be harvested by machine but this is not universal.
It should be universal. If even fucking USSR with all its slave labor did it with machines there is no fucking reason to keep doing it here manually almost 30 years later.
Except for justifying importing more Dem voters from the 3rd-world countries that is.
Some machines (which would lay idle 11 - 10 months of the year) are better rented. If you can rent the machine for 6k ($600 hr for 10 hrs) or hire 50 guys for 10 hrs at $5.20 per hour ($5,200) why would you ever use the machine?
As well as the importers of fine produce everywhere to keep out prices low and people in slavery like conditions for as long as they may live.
Lots of interesting photos.
I know these guys are just trying to make money by breaking our laws, but the real criminals are their US employers. Employers of illegals get away with undercutting American wages and labor laws, directly harming millions of American citizens. Please don't go on about how "no US citizen wants those jobs". The truth is that US citizens don't want to compete with illegal immigrants to see who will accept the lower wages. Citizens will pick strawberries if you pay them enough. Hell, I'll do it for a certain price.
We need hard jail time for employers of illegals. It would be far more effective than mere wall. I'd like to hear Trump propose that.