Thread: Influx into the US

^ Farm workers from Mexico have always been needed. Temporary worker visas should be the way they are handled.

Seeing the comment by the farmer who said he can't get Americans to do the work, I thought of the ads I have seen in the local Georgia newspapers for farm workers. They were paying $7-$9 an hour for pickers. The farms were located in very rural areas where few people live and takes hours to get there from the cities. No transportation or housing provided with the jobs. The migrant workers are willing to build and live in huts on the farm and stay out while the job gets done. Sure the farms can't find Americans who will put up with those conditions.

I think there are plenty of costs to taxpayers for those farm workers even though the farmers are getting cheap labor. It is the law of the land all children must go to school. Special mobile schools follow the migrant workers around to keep the kids from going without education. Also, they get SNAP benefits for those kids born as Americans since the parents wages are so low. I was also surprised when I found out how much government subsidized permanent housing there is in California's farmland, available dirt cheap only to migrant workers.