SatinDoll, the current system is a mess and it is very concerning to those if us who make our livelihood farming. I took to exception to your post because it was an accusation and I apologize for the tone of my response. Since you are honestly interested I will do my best to explain what I would like to see. First, kids in the field, welfare recipients and parolees are not workable solutions. The work is very hard and demanding. A viable and workable guest worker program would be the best solution in my opinion. Couple the guest worker program with a defended border and a workable verification system and we have gone a long way toward solving the problem.
When I was a small child attending grade school in Oxnard, CA, many of my classmates’s parents were working on truck farms on the Brassero program. That was during the Eisenhower administration. Somehow, when the Democrats were voted back into power, everything fell apart.
Things are really bad, that is a given today.
“A viable and workable guest worker program would be the best solution in my opinion. Couple the guest worker program with a defended border and a workable verification system and we have gone a long way toward solving the problem.”
You, sir, are 100% correct.