• Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com
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    Most Americans don’t want to do this work.

    Well, yeah. Excuse the generalizations, but we don’t live 6 to an apartment or farm housing and ship our wages back home where the dollar goes further. We have to survive here long term and farmers don’t pay COL, savings, and retirement.

    Americans don’t do this because it’s a bad deal.

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      Absolutely, if it paid well enough people would do it. Same problem as always: “how do I replace my slave labor force?!”

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      Given they also said the farms barely break even mostly means produce doesn’t pay well enough to afford a good deal to workers, either. These things should cost quite a bit more but don’t thanks to immigrant exploitation.

      Not sure what the good deal solution would be, though. Still, people attacking undocumented folk definitely live in a racist fantasy world.

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        They’re also cutting food stamps which helps keep farms afloat by increasing demand for food.