less immigrant workers = this. i saw it coming :o
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i saw that on the news the other day and first thing came to mind was granholm trying to win more voters so she doesnt lose teh goveners office
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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 go to the extent they are required to check legality, obviously they know some are going to lie so im assuming they purposly dont check that hard. as long as there is enough provided documentation they are sastified. and no they dont fire them simply because of suspicions. i imagine that even though they are illegal they have some sort of workers rights where the business has to have proof and cant just guess.
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this problem will force innovation. it happened back in the 60s with tomato pickers. it happed after slavery ended with the cotton fields, and the cotton gin was invented. someone will find a way to make a machine that will do the work faster and cheaper that a human can. the only reason they use people is because its cheap now. give it 5 years and they will have machines out in the fields doing what people used to do. innovation is the American way, you over come challanges. The price of produce will not go up drastically, the thing that cost the most with produce is transportation cost. considering gas prices have dropped we shouldn't see a major change in produce.
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Thats what I was thinking. It was invented in the 18th century and it made the cotton industry immensely profitable, therefore increasing the demand for slaves.
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werd the cotton gin didnt actually pick the cotton, it seperated the seeds and removed husks thereby increasing the amount of cotton that could be proccessed each day, dramatically increasing profits to plantation owners and increasing the number of slaves they could own to pick more cotton per day
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You gotta pay teenagers at least minimum wage. You can pay an illegal $2.50/hr if you want to. If the farmers recruited teenagers to pick, they would be spending more on paying the kids than they made by selling the produce.