Posted on May 12, 2010 - 12:36am by chrisrob in Uncategorized
Looking forward to seeing how this garbage plays out. The Atlantic notes that more than half (HALF!) of America’s 2.5 million farm workers are undocumented. And a big chunk of our lettuce crop comes from Arizona. Now these workers, workers helping to make it possible for me to get lettuce on my 99-cent hamburger, may choose not to risk arrest in Arizona. And that ain’t good for Arizona since lettuce is “a $1 billion dollar business…and the state’s highest-value crop”.
And what of the argument that undocumented workers are taking these labor-intensive jobs from Americans? Tom Church, the president of Church Brothers, a large lettuce grower, says that American workers is the last thing his company wants. “If we had to rely on American workers, it would never get done…,” he says.”
Damn, Tom. That’s cold.
Arizona, you bastards deserve everything you get.
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