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Article #2861Re: "Mexican Christmas" proves we can get along without wetbacks
From: Morton Davis
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:16
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:16
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<editor@netpath.net> wrote in message news:1136837518.511745.87520@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > 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. > > And what stoop labor farming is still done, Americans aren't exactly rushing to get those jobs. In fact, Mexico itself is becoming quite the agricultural products supplier, and even those farms are mechanizing.
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