Thanks dave for posting up the same old canards of the pro illegal immigrant movement.
$14 for a head of lettuce? Please..
A head of lettuce is currently under a buck (about $0.65 last time I checked). If it is being picked by $8/hr immigrant labor and half of the cost of the lettuce is labor, let’s raise the wage of lettuce pickers (legal ones) to $24/hr. That’s a 300% increase. How many people do you think would line up to pick lettuce at $24/hr? I’d say a fair amount. And this would raise the cost of a head of lettuce to about $1.50.
Let’s see, when I was in high school, I
1) washed dishes in 3 different restaurants
2) dug trenches
3) worked as a mover
My friends worked in landscaping and as manual labor on farms and ranches. This was on the central coast of CA.
These are all jobs that are done by illegals now.
Why? For many reasons. Much of it is cultural; parents over the last 25 years have instilled a sense of entitlement in their children. Many (most) don’t even work in high school anymore or even college. If they DO work, they won’t do this ‘menial’ work because they’ve been taught it’s ‘beneath’ them by these same parents.
There is no lack of able bodied US citizens to do much of this work that we now consider ‘immigrant’ work…just look at the unemployment. But why would these people work if they can just receive a government check?
