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Originally Posted by Hootad Binky Because these are jobs that Canadian citizens won't do. |
Are you sure that Canadians will not do that work, or will not do it as cheap as the wet backs..
When I was young we worked on ranches putting up the hay and in the spring before ranch work started we picked strawberries and in the fall after ranch work ended on weekends when not in school we picked up spuds behind the diggers, and the closest mexican was 1000 miles south on the other side of the border.
When I lived in Calif as a kid we always cut grapes and seen no mex in the fields then, but the grapes made it to the winerys and the tomatoes that were picked by US and mex labor did make it to the cannerys.
But they did pay a decent wage too, then the mex took over because they would do it cheaper and an American will not do it, but where they will pay a decent wage there is still people that were called "fruit tramps" that do not camp under a tarp tied to the side of an old Packard or Nash anymore, but move around in new pickups and tow 35 or 40 foot travel trailers to the camp grounds furnished by the Apple and pear growers and then winter in the south with the true retired snow birds all winter.