California farmworker explains how undocumented immigrants find work
DIXON — California has more undocumented immigrants than any other state in the country, and there is plenty of work done to bring them here, even if the law does not allow it.
Several years ago they were trying to recruit people who were US citizens to do the veggie harvest and got basically zero applications. I'm not opposed to foreigners picking the crops I just want them to be here legally, pay their taxes and go home when they are done. I knew some workers here in Kansas that did just that, came here, worked two or three years, returned to Mexico and lived like kings.
That is how the system worked for decades. Mexicans would come, work jobs no one wanted and then go back home. Many would come for a few months to pick specific crops or work seasonal jobs and go back home at the end of the season. In the 90's we started making it harder for migrants to cross that led to them just crossing once and staying here.
Getting rid of all these illegal alien criminals is paramount, but having no American replacements is like Trump putting tariffs on foreign products. We'll all gonna have to stop eating California veggies and using Chink cellphones. Instead, we'll have to take a big bite out of a Made in the USA shit sandwich and talk on refurbished Western Electric manufactured rotary desk phones.
The tariffs against Canada and Mexico were aimed at "stop helping people illegally crossing our border or we'll F your economy." The goal was never tariffs. The goal was to change their behavior. If your news source did not make that clear, they are not a good source for news.
We have people available to do the work, it's just that nobody has the guts to do what it takes to get them to do it. I am talking about all of the people on welfare.
Exactly, work permits that are for a specific time period and employer... Anyone caught overstaying or changing employer withhold specific authorization NEVER gets another one and is banned from the country for life.. JD
The invaders don't just pick vegetables, if you have a trailer boat or even a bigger boat you can bet it was laid up by an illegal. Working with fiberglass is a real bitch, it will poison you , itch till you want to rip your skin off & it catches fire like gasoline & just as hard to put out. Hard to find White or Black people to work in lamination for crap pay. And building boats is also seasonal & getting trained people to come back in the spring is a problem too.
Here, in Southwest Michigan there are thousands of acres of corn fields. Corn needs detasseling. Historically, local teenagers did it and made "good money" for their age. It is hot and crappy work but these mostly white, northern european kids did it and had fun doing it as they all "worked together" for the month or so it took. Within the last 12 years it has become migrant work. One of the reasons is because when the farmers started to bring Adult Male Latinos from South of the Border, they began to sexually harass the pretty blond kids - esp. the girls - and they were no longer safe being stuck in the corn fields with these men. The same goes for the green houses - we have trillions, seriously. It is seasonal work that used to be done by youngsters and women whose children were are school. It was a win/win situation: the work got done and the women trimmed down (lost their winter fur, as we liked to say) before swim season. At the end of the growing season, late May, every one looked healthy and happy. It isn't a lot of money, but the community pulled together. Those greenhouses are now all mexicans, who, I admit a good and fast workers, and generally likable, but that is not the point.
A worker could find a good labor contractor to line up jobs. Might even be one as good as Juan Corona, who probably never had a single laborer working for him deported. Of course, it's hard to deport somebody who's dead. https://allthatsinteresting.com/juan-corona
Several years ago they were trying to recruit people who were US citizens to do the veggie harvest and got basically zero applications.
ReplyDeleteI'm not opposed to foreigners picking the crops I just want them to be here legally, pay their taxes and go home when they are done.
I knew some workers here in Kansas that did just that, came here, worked two or three years, returned to Mexico and lived like kings.
That is how the system worked for decades. Mexicans would come, work jobs no one wanted and then go back home. Many would come for a few months to pick specific crops or work seasonal jobs and go back home at the end of the season. In the 90's we started making it harder for migrants to cross that led to them just crossing once and staying here.
DeleteTerm-limit Welfare and see what happens next...
DeleteGetting rid of all these illegal alien criminals is paramount, but having no American replacements is like Trump putting tariffs on foreign products. We'll all gonna have to stop eating California veggies and using Chink cellphones. Instead, we'll have to take a big bite out of a Made in the USA shit sandwich and talk on refurbished Western Electric manufactured rotary desk phones.
ReplyDeleteCan you say work visas?
DeleteWork visas as in H1B visas?
DeleteAh..... no. Green cards. Come into the country to work, then go home in a few months.
DeleteThe tariffs against Canada and Mexico were aimed at "stop helping people illegally crossing our border or we'll F your economy." The goal was never tariffs. The goal was to change their behavior. If your news source did not make that clear, they are not a good source for news.
DeleteWe have people available to do the work, it's just that nobody has the guts to do what it takes to get them to do it. I am talking about all of the people on welfare.
DeleteExactly, work permits that are for a specific time period and employer... Anyone caught overstaying or changing employer withhold specific authorization NEVER gets another one and is banned from the country for life..
ReplyDeleteJD
The invaders don't just pick vegetables, if you have a trailer boat or even a bigger boat you can bet it was laid up by an illegal. Working with fiberglass is a real bitch, it will poison you , itch till you want to rip your skin off & it catches fire like gasoline & just as hard to put out. Hard to find White or Black people to work in lamination for crap pay. And building boats is also seasonal & getting trained people to come back in the spring is a problem too.
ReplyDeleteHere, in Southwest Michigan there are thousands of acres of corn fields. Corn needs detasseling. Historically, local teenagers did it and made "good money" for their age. It is hot and crappy work but these mostly white, northern european kids did it and had fun doing it as they all "worked together" for the month or so it took. Within the last 12 years it has become migrant work. One of the reasons is because when the farmers started to bring Adult Male Latinos from South of the Border, they began to sexually harass the pretty blond kids - esp. the girls - and they were no longer safe being stuck in the corn fields with these men.
ReplyDeleteThe same goes for the green houses - we have trillions, seriously. It is seasonal work that used to be done by youngsters and women whose children were are school. It was a win/win situation: the work got done and the women trimmed down (lost their winter fur, as we liked to say) before swim season. At the end of the growing season, late May, every one looked healthy and happy. It isn't a lot of money, but the community pulled together.
Those greenhouses are now all mexicans, who, I admit a good and fast workers, and generally likable, but that is not the point.
A worker could find a good labor contractor to line up jobs. Might even be one as good as Juan Corona, who probably never had a single laborer working for him deported. Of course, it's hard to deport somebody who's dead.
ReplyDeletehttps://allthatsinteresting.com/juan-corona