Here in america farmers hire illegals to harvest crops, claiming that no american would do the workThis is a political talking point that has been repeated so often that people believe it is true.
During the recession of 2008, there were stores on local TV news in many places showing unemployed Americans waiting in long lines for the opportunity do do those jobs that the politicians kept saying no American wanted to do for those wages. Meatpacking plants, especially, had more than enough Americans to choose from who were willing to work for low wages.
Because these things happened in "flyover" states, they were only very rarely shown on television on the coasts, and so the meme stuck.
A similar oft-repeated lie is that American farmers are all a bunch of Republican hillbillies who hate brown immigrants.
Around 2010, I attended a conference in Seattle for farmers in the Pacific Northwest. The main topic of discussion was how to increase legal immigration from Mexico so that they could have more farmworkers to pick the cherries and apples and mint and whatnot. These people were talking about goals of making people from Mexico and Latin America U.S. citizens in staggering numbers.
The more you actually go places and do things and meet people and talk to them, the more you realize that the words coming out of the political organizations on the coasts are mostly for their own benefit, and do not reflect reality.
This is a political talking point that has been repeated so often that people believe it is true.
During the recession of 2008, there were stores on local TV news in many places showing unemployed Americans waiting in long lines for the opportunity do do those jobs that the politicians kept saying no American wanted to do for those wages. Meatpacking plants, especially, had more than enough Americans to choose from who were willing to work for low wages.
Because these things happened in "flyover" states, they were only very rarely shown on television on the coasts, and so the meme stuck.
A similar oft-repeated lie is that American farmers are all a bunch of Republican hillbillies who hate brown immigrants.
Around 2010, I attended a conference in Seattle for farmers in the Pacific Northwest. The main topic of discussion was how to increase legal immigration from Mexico so that they could have more farmworkers to pick the cherries and apples and mint and whatnot. These people were talking about goals of making people from Mexico and Latin America U.S. citizens in staggering numbers.
The more you actually go places and do things and meet people and talk to them, the more you realize that the words coming out of the political organizations on the coasts are mostly for their own benefit, and do not reflect reality.