Immigrant Farm Workers: 'Take Our Jobs'

It's about time that people start thinking things through. Claiming that because the guy mowing the lawn is an illegal immigrant Americans are losing out on work does not adress the fact that for the wage offered, most Americans would not do the job.

Great.  You do an article about how few people signed up, but provide no link so anyone can.  Talk about liberal media!  Please shut up and stop complaining if you can't make it news and make it possible to make a difference.  I for one would sign up - if you could be bothered to REPORT on how to do so!

For starters, all these illegals aren't just fruit pickers and farm labor.  And they are still here illegally, thats the main point.  There was one that got stopped at an airport in Florida.  He had a duffle bag with $68,000 in cash and he was heading home with it.  Didn't pay taxes, just trying to sneak out of the U.S. with it.  They should stop them at the border....with bullets.  Sending them back doesn't work.  Time to take the kid gloves off.

"Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep." -- Tyler Durden

There are a lot of jobs needing to be filled. If you are unemployed and too "proud" to work at certain jobs that is an independent position. However those who are too "proud" to do the work forfeit  the "right" to complain when others are quite willing to step up and take the work. Those same too "proud" to do the work equally forfeit the 'right" to complain that the State or Industry are not looking after their "needs". The duty of the State or Industry is not to satisfy ego's.

The problem is, "Americans" won't do the job for the wage rate that is intensely depressed by illegal 3rd world aliens who are willing to do manual labor for a pay rate that is not commensurate with what is expected to maintain a 1st world standard of living. To be certain, farm work is very, very hard work and as such, could offer a pay rate commensurate with the labor involved... Sadly, this won't happen. The economy of it all has evolved in a natural path of economic least resistance, facilitated entirely by the presence of illegal 3rd world aliens willing to live in 3rd world conditions and work for 3rd world wages. Were our impotent immigration policy not a tacit wink and a nod towards the work these aliens do, there would most definitely be Americans doing these jobs- just not for a pittance wage. The wage would have to rise to meet the intense labor demands associated with the job... Yes, we would all pay pocket-change more for our fruits and veggies in exchange for employing Americans to do hard work at a living wage- it's a trade off that seems worth it to me. Nevertheless, we've entered a race to the cultural bottom where we exploit 3rd world peoples- with their inherently lower standards of living- for the cheap, unskilled labor they have to offer and the insignificant cost-savings that result to us, as consumers. It's unfortunate and we all lose. Stopping 3rd world immigration is not a 'save our jobs' issue. It's a 'save our standard of living' issue. As things stand, it's classic labor arbitrage, which drags our standard of living down right along with  it.