Okay, instead of paying 1 dollar for a head of lettuce I will pay a dollar and a half so American Citizens harvest the lettuce.
Market forces work. The pay for farm labor is low because of the influx of illegal aliens. If they were not here the price of labor would go up to meet the demand for their work. I would pay more for my lettuce. It is worth the price.
Funny how so many, from the captains of industry to the independent entrepreneurs, just LOVE market economics...until it turns against them in the form of labor costs.
Actually, at 120 heads per hour it is about $08 for lettuce.
I think it could be picked faster than that, but you know the yahoos that do this work. a lot of fat ladies and kids.
Post to myself:
Cesar Chavez is an icon of the Farm Workers Labor movement for higher wages. Actually in his time he was very right. Those workers were paid poorly.
What most people do not know is Cesar Chavez was adamantly opposed to illegal aliens. He recognized they were an economic force that drove farm workers wages down.
It amuses me when I drive down Cesar Chavez street in Austin Texas. Austin is the heart of liberalism in Texas. I do not even consider it Texas. They honor a man that opposed illegals and Austin is a Sanctuary City. They do not even know what Cesar Chavez stood for. If they did they would change the name of the street.
I suspect the market price would remain the same, because the profits are being absorbed by liberal leaning corporate Big-Agra than by small producers.
There would also be increased mechanization.