Re: "Mexican Christmas" proves we can get along without wetbacks

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Kane wrote:
>Bracero's have been an important element in farm economy for about
>80-90 years in this country, that I know of. My uncles hired many to
>work their ranches and farms in the Southwest. My uncles couldn't GET
>white labor, let alone pay for them if they were there and willing. A
>seasonal large workforce has always been essential to this county's
>wealth and prosperity and to keeping YOUR commodity prices down.

   In case you haven't noticed, farming - especially stoop-labor
farming - really is on its way out in most all of America.  Here in my
North Carolina county - which had four tobacco-auction warehouses 30
years ago - today there aren't any; that's proof of how much less
tobacco farming is going on here.  What farming remains has steadily
increasingly automated.

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