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Folks, I can tell you right now that this shit doesn't work. How many times has amnesty been given to illegal farm workers because ag needs them? Do you know what happens when farm workers are made citizens? THEY LEAVE THE FUCKING FARM. Why? Because they cannot afford to live in this country by jumping from one farm to the next to harvest seasonal crops.
When they become legal, they suddenly have to start worrying about the same problems we do. Paying for insurance, a home, etc. They want stability so they are going to find a local job that pays them stable funding year around and not seasonal.
There are migrant workers who just want to come to the US, do the seasonal work then go home to mexico and live like kings. But the migrant visa program is purposefully fucked-up to make it super super difficult and expensive for farmers to use it. The rules put ridiculously stringent work conditions that make it impossible for a producer to meet and still make any kind of profit off their food production. They have to have profit. Producing food is horribly expensive for the grower.
I live and work in the ag community. When you are paying 100,000s of thousands of dollars for just one piece of farm equipment and you need 10 of these beasts, shit adds up quick.
With all the past amnesties given to illegals ask yourself this - Why is there still a labor shortage? Because giving farm workers citizenship doesn't work like the left says it does.
I say screw the fucking citizenship path, fix the seasonal farm worker regulation problems, bio-chip and fingerprint the workers to keep track of them so they can't sneak off, and make the system work like it should, and get the stupid no-nothing liberals out of the picture, they screw and destroy everything they touch – literally and figuratively. Build the goddamn wall.