less immigrant workers = this. i saw it coming :o
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the technology is there, machines can be very percise. they have machines that allow doctors to perform a procedure on a patient such as heart operations from very far distances. The doctor could be at a hospital in AZ, and peform the operation on someone in Boston. thats pretty delicate if you ask me. if you can do that with machines, I think they can make a machine that can pick produce. someone really smart is going to make a lot of money off this situation. I'm sure there are already machines that can already do this work on farms.
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they can do it with tomatoes.
the technology is there, machines can be very percise. they have machines that allow doctors to perform a procedure on a patient such as heart operations from very far distances. The doctor could be at a hospital in AZ, and peform the operation on someone in Boston. thats pretty delicate if you ask me. if you can do that with machines, I think they can make a machine that can pick produce. someone really smart is going to make a lot of money off this situation. I'm sure there are already machines that can already do this work on farms.
the technology is there, machines can be very percise. they have machines that allow doctors to perform a procedure on a patient such as heart operations from very far distances. The doctor could be at a hospital in AZ, and peform the operation on someone in Boston. thats pretty delicate if you ask me. if you can do that with machines, I think they can make a machine that can pick produce. someone really smart is going to make a lot of money off this situation. I'm sure there are already machines that can already do this work on farms.
Surprisingly, I agreed with Bush's plan of a temporary worker's plan, that allows immigrants to get passes to work in this country for exactly this sort of thing. It makes it so that shit still gets done, but everybody coming to work is legal.
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Yeah, but machines that don't cost millions? That's a lot harder.
Surprisingly, I agreed with Bush's plan of a temporary worker's plan, that allows immigrants to get passes to work in this country for exactly this sort of thing. It makes it so that shit still gets done, but everybody coming to work is legal.
Surprisingly, I agreed with Bush's plan of a temporary worker's plan, that allows immigrants to get passes to work in this country for exactly this sort of thing. It makes it so that shit still gets done, but everybody coming to work is legal.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15123111/
Tight borders leave farms with fewer workers
Crops lie unpicked as farmers watch labor supply dry up
...The problem is now reaching crisis proportions, food growers say. As much as 30 percent of the year's pear crop was lost in Northern California, growers estimate. More than one-third of Florida's Valencia orange crop went unharvested, Regelbrugge said. In New York, apples are rotting on the trees, because workers who once picked the fruit have fled frequent raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, said Maureen Marshall, an apple grower in Elba.
Tight borders leave farms with fewer workers
Crops lie unpicked as farmers watch labor supply dry up
...The problem is now reaching crisis proportions, food growers say. As much as 30 percent of the year's pear crop was lost in Northern California, growers estimate. More than one-third of Florida's Valencia orange crop went unharvested, Regelbrugge said. In New York, apples are rotting on the trees, because workers who once picked the fruit have fled frequent raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, said Maureen Marshall, an apple grower in Elba.
i think that's just the bullshit media being sensational and hyping up bullshit as usual.
it's not like there was a mass deportation of illegal immigrants recently.
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Yeah see this is what I was thinking. Personally I think each of these farmers deserves exactly what is happening for employing illegal immigrants. Also because of their complicity in the matter the prices of produce, fruits etc should not be allowed to be raised even one penny.
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one of my customers is a very large farm/canning factory and they do hire mexican workers(of the legal kind). the problems many ofthese farms face is that alot of these illegal workers when coming to apply for jobs show all the necessary documentation showing them as legal and able to work in the US. problem is alot of these "legal documents" are actually fakes and forgeries. it happens, and for example at this farm denny, the guy in charge, only really finds out wich ones are illegals when they hear the immigration officers are on their way from the factory to the fields.....all the illegals dissapear and then show up as soon as the officers are gone.
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they are here in AZ. Illegals are driving down the wages of the high paying construction jobs. so they are taking the jobs americans do want to do.