[hedgetrimmer]

Agriculture is one of the few industries where you can truly say the Mexicans and the Central Americans do work Americans won't do

This statement is utter myth. I've worked in the fields and I know other that have. I also know something you don't. Most crew bosses will only hire latinos. You can try all you want and you won't get put on a crew. Some strawberry crew bosses in the Monterey Bay area, CA, will only hire out of certain villages in Mexico. If you're not from there, fuggetaboutit.

[Clemenza]

Agricultural labor just isn't popular with Americans in general. I have friends of mine, now in their 50s and 60s, who used to work the harvest as a summer job while they were off from school. They didn't treat it as a career, and this was 40-50 years ago.

In NYC, you have one choice: Puebla. NYC went from having NO Mexicans when I was a kid in the 1980s to having 300-400,000 today. Where they really hurt wages are in the food service and the construction industry. As the unions are bought off, you see them on the crews.