Worthless parasites? You wouldn’t last a day doing the field work that the Mexican farm workers do (Admittedly, I wouldn’t either, but I didn’t disparage the whole lot of them). They bust their assess, get paid meager wages, without benefits, and it’s still a better life than the ones they left in Mexico.
If your business model includes employing illegal labor then either go out of business or change your model.
Considering that less than 2% of illegals currently in the country are in the ag business and considering the services available to them now that they pay very little to receive ‘worthless parasite’ is probably a more apt description now than it was back in chavez’s day.
GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY UNLESS YOU ARE LEGAL!! OUT!!
I disparage any illegal entry into my nation. Any illegal will get gone soon. Rest in that.
Understand, much of the work is by the piece. Why? To get production because harvest is time-sensitive.
So, while the farm tries to pay the least dollars per piece possible, the law of supply and demand reigns supreme and is effect, always. Subsequently, the price paid per piece has to be competitive because there are other farms out there and the price finally settles at a point that is acceptable to the worker.
At that point the production is acceptable to both the farmer and the worker.
Many of you would be surprised at the money a worker can earn in a day. Probably more than many of you make.
There is more nuances to this, but you get the drift.
Reminds me of when we had to pick green beans in Arkansas fifty four years ago, all white crew. Hardest work I ever did under a blazing 100 degree hot sun, 75% humidity. Thought I was gonna die. My brother passed out in the fields, all for a 1 1/2 cents a pound. I made five dollars one day!
Then the weather turned dry and they decided to give us 2 cents a pound for lighter beans. Most I ever made then was $2.80 a day for the same amount picked.
We got educated and got out of there when we became of age.