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You tell the prisoners if they want an inside, sheltered cell they work picking crops and they work hard. If they choose to not work you give them a tent and a sleeping bag and have them sleep outside inside a fenced in area with basic food and no perks.
How many prisons are there within transportation distance from these farms?
Are the employers willing to pay transportation costs?
How will they be fed?
Did you even think about what you are suggesting?
Wouldn't it be simpler to streamline the legal visa process and have corporate farms pay a decent wage?
People don't want to pay five cents more for a bag of lettuce but they eagerly shell out hundreds for the latest iPhone
Since only 2% of illegals are picking crops and those who hire them only pocket the profits the cost of produce won't go up. Our taxes would go down though if illegal are deported. They cost us $113 billion a year.
Since only 2% of illegals are picking crops and those who hire them only pocket the profits the cost of produce won't go up. Our taxes would go down though if illegal are deported. They cost us $113 billion a year.
2% pick 27% of America's crops, & up to 45% of crops in some states. You always forget that part
I am not sure but I do know that most of the money comes from beef. I know he sells the grass fed-no hormone beef to a large company.
Upstate NY is lacking jobs in a major way. These Americans who live up there (in the Catskills) do not have many options. So they are forced to work on the farms, I guess. AND they do it. One of the workers I spoke with was in is forties and his farm went under (he said due to regulations etc. he was a milk farmer). Very proud people.
A lot of citizens work on farms in California too. But there's a huge difference between being working on a ranch or farm and hand picking crops 48 hours a week
You tell the prisoners if they want an inside, sheltered cell they work picking crops and they work hard. If they choose to not work you give them a tent and a sleeping bag and have them sleep outside inside a fenced in area with basic food and no perks.
It's too expensive, farmers would have to pay for the prison to transport and guard the workers, that turns out to be a very expensive proposition.
so we have exposed yet another terrible reality that illegal immigration causes.. The fact is, having illegals isn't an answer its clearly the problem. .
if we didn't have illegals at all these crops wouldn't be rotting in the fields, we would have real pipelines for legal residents to get to this work.
And if we could not find enough workers, we would have solved that with a guest worker program to solve the problem.
but because our progressive friends don't want a solution, we now have fields with rotting food. Thank you left.
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