Guess who is short of farm workers?

[Doc7505]

Guess who is short of farm workers?​

Guess who is short of farm workers?

Let's file this one in the

www.americanthinker.com

8 Apr 2024 ~~ By Silvio Canto Jr.

Let's file this one in the "you can't make this up" category.
Down Mexico way, they are running out of farm workers.
This is the story:

"For decades, Mexicans crossed the border to pick Americans’ lettuce, grapes and strawberries. Mexico had a seemingly inexhaustible supply of farmhands — tough, hard-working men who did the jobs most Americans didn’t want.​

But the country is running short of farmworkers.​

The workforce is graying; nearly three-quarters of Mexican campesinos are over 45. Young people are turning up their noses at farm jobs. And those willing to do migrant work have other options. Nearly 300,000 a year travel to the United States on seasonal agricultural visas, a fourfold increase in a decade.​

“They’re taking a significant percentage of the available workers,” fretted Aldo Mares, a farm executive here in Jalisco state. He’s had to scramble this season to find workers to pick his juicy strawberries, blackberries and raspberries."​

How long before the Mexican government of Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador starts calling for Mexicans to come home and pick some strawberries?
Like everything, this one is a bit complicado.
~Snip~
In other words, there are fewer workers coming up and most of them would rather go north than pick strawberries in Irapuato, the strawberry capital of Mexico.
So some in Mexico are calling for a guest-worker program to fill those jobs.
You can't make this up but it is the way it is.


Commentary:
Understandable. Is it any wonder? Why work in Mexico when you can sneak into the US and get free healthcare, social security payments, up to $1500/mo housing subsidies, plus other payments and not work at all?
Ask yourself this: Who are the idiots in this scenario?
A good example is, when they come to the US they don't even have to work--Mayor Adams, Johnson and others will give them housing, food and spending money, without any work requirement! Can't do better than that.
Of course Rep. Jerry Nadler would differ. He say's we need those farmers here rather than Mexico.

MSN

 

[rampart]

Guess who is short of farm workers?​

Guess who is short of farm workers?

Let's file this one in the

www.americanthinker.com

8 Apr 2024 ~~ By Silvio Canto Jr.

Let's file this one in the "you can't make this up" category.
Down Mexico way, they are running out of farm workers.
This is the story:

"For decades, Mexicans crossed the border to pick Americans’ lettuce, grapes and strawberries. Mexico had a seemingly inexhaustible supply of farmhands — tough, hard-working men who did the jobs most Americans didn’t want.​

But the country is running short of farmworkers.​

The workforce is graying; nearly three-quarters of Mexican campesinos are over 45. Young people are turning up their noses at farm jobs. And those willing to do migrant work have other options. Nearly 300,000 a year travel to the United States on seasonal agricultural visas, a fourfold increase in a decade.​

“They’re taking a significant percentage of the available workers,” fretted Aldo Mares, a farm executive here in Jalisco state. He’s had to scramble this season to find workers to pick his juicy strawberries, blackberries and raspberries."​

How long before the Mexican government of Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador starts calling for Mexicans to come home and pick some strawberries?
Like everything, this one is a bit complicado.
~Snip~
In other words, there are fewer workers coming up and most of them would rather go north than pick strawberries in Irapuato, the strawberry capital of Mexico.
So some in Mexico are calling for a guest-worker program to fill those jobs.
You can't make this up but it is the way it is.


Commentary:
Understandable. Is it any wonder? Why work in Mexico when you can sneak into the US and get free healthcare, social security payments, up to $1500/mo housing subsidies, plus other payments and not work at all?
Ask yourself this: Who are the idiots in this scenario?
A good example is, when they come to the US they don't even have to work--Mayor Adams, Johnson and others will give them housing, food and spending money, without any work requirement! Can't do better than that.
Of course Rep. Jerry Nadler would differ. He say's we need those farmers here rather than Mexico.

MSN

i pick my own vegetables. if all this is true.

free healthcare, social security payments, up to $1500/mo housing subsidies, plus other payments and not work at all?

it is a violation of federal law. punish the violators. +by which i mean the people who approve the payments (of which i remain skeptical)

 

[Rambunctious]

They are all here collecting welfare and food cards....

 

[The Irish Ram]

Why would they sweat the day away working for a farmer when they can live here for free?

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

They are all here collecting welfare and food cards....

Mooching Muchachos

 

[elektra]

I have worked hand in hand with Mexicans. They will work hard and long. Great people.

We should quit denigrating Mexicans and start denigrating the politicians that make their lives so difficult. It is the tragedy of the last 50 years.