In other words, the problem is the LEFTIST DIMocRATS, who never wanted to enforce the law, rather than that there was any problem with a GOOD “Guest Workers Program” that allowed farmers to hire the temporary manual laborers that were needed to do work that no American citizen was willing to do at any price.
Let me give you ONE example. - When my late mother took over management of the family farm in 1966 after my grandfather, my father & her elder brother died, Mother tried to hire 3-4 people to build/repair fences, do the necessary labor to cut/bale/”get in” the hay & to take care of our livestock.
She placed numerous ads, worked with the local/regional unemployment agencies & after 6 weeks of looking/interviewing had had exactly ONE person who wanted a job & actually showed up to work. = An about 120#, 25YO woman.
(”Nellie Jo” told my mother that she really needed a job, as she had a little boy, no husband & was willing to do any job that she needed done. - Mother hired her & she stayed with us for over 20 years, doing all sorts of necessary work for Mother at the farm & elsewhere.)
It truly comes down to this, NO farmer can afford to pay the amount per hour that would tempt many Americans to do farm labor. = The only choice is a well-designed Guest Workers Program that allows the laborers to come to the USA lawfully, do the jobs as long as they are needed & then leave the USA thereafter, until the temporary laborers are needed again.
Just my OPINION, TMN78247
That’s what I was trying to say. In the 60s every kid in our town couldn’t wait to be old enough to pick strawberries and raspberries and cucumbers etc. along side the migrant workers. We wanted money to buy clothes and save for college with.
Now none of the kids do that. Their mothers
shuttle them to soccer practice instead and they have no work ethic.
A time gone by.