Saw this in the San Diego Union Tribune by one of its lefty cartoonists.And shame on him for promoting slavery. It's like I keep saying about Democrat leaders. These guys are still the party of slave labor after all these years. There was no great party switch in the 60s in which racists Democrats became racist Republicans. The party still likes to keep a few million workers on the plantations for the benefit of big Agriculture. They get paid a pittance so we can buy cheap produce and agricultural products and at the same time, the commercial Ag companies can make bigger profits.
For that is what suggesting that we have to have illegal immigrants in order to harvest our crops is all about. This badly distorted policy in essence supports the exploitation of migrant workers as what is essentially cheap virtual slave labor. I've seen the colonias where the pickup trucks gather up ragged fathers and sons in the predawn light and carry them off to the fields for the day and home again in the failing light, For, you see, the growers and factory farms don't have to worry about paying illegals the "living wage" Dems say they are so fond of. Not only that but big agricultural operations, chicken processors, rose growers and commercial dairy farmers can treat undocumented migrant workers like crap and they won't complain for fear of being tossed out and reported to ICE. I saw it in the colonias of Texas and I see it in the illegal immigrant camps and miserable ghettos of California.
At least my home state is trying to cut off the flow of slave labor from the south. By doing that they force industries that exploit illegals to hire actual legal workers at living wages to do the work. Legal immigrants cannot be exploited in the same way because it is safe for them to report your Colonel Beauregard, plantation owning, upper class butt to the authorities.
There's a reason they can't get Americans to work those jobs. We expect not to be treated as slaves and to be paid decently.
We in America are free Massa Bob!
© 2018 by Tom King
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I always get a little angry when I hear about jobs Americans won't do. I've held many jobs that were hard, dirty, and not well paying--sometimes more than one at the same time. I've worked in agriculture, done manual labor, and sweated under the sun more than I care to remember. But my wife and I worked our way through college, grad school, and in her case med school by doing those messy dirty jobs.
We trust the market to sell agriculture, but for some reason do not trust the market to buy labor at competitive prices. We need to end economic schizophrenia.
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