Thread: MI: Crops ready; where are workers?

Thats why they need seasonal farm workers who go home in between seasons, they don't need to give these people permanent residencey so they can move on to Americans jobs!

Well, with the drop in new home construction, I read somewhere some had gone back to the farms but they sure don't like it.

And you're right, MW. Illegals work cheaper.

I believe visa holders are paid somewhere around $9 per hr with their only expense being food.

Originally Posted by Bowman

Also a grower of apples and cherries, Winkel said that if the shortage in migrant labor continues through the summer, he will lose ``tens of thousands of dollars'' this year.

Better you than me. Maybe this guy needs to invest in machinery instead of slave labor.

Yep, yep. And... when I hear claims stated as in "I will lose [x] dollars" this instantly raises my ire. There are different interpretations of exactly what such thing could mean.

Examples:

a). I am not going to make as much more as I anticipated making (as in my $100,000 profit was reduced to $90,000) OR
b). I will operate at a net loss of $10,000.

Those are 2 VERY different scenarios. Don't accept such claims at face value without more information and/or proof.

My family has a dormant tree farm which we should staff up and harvest. I thinkwe should hire arborists from Haiti and I feel justified since the big market for our species is the Haitian reforestation market.
The more of our seed that they can purchase with their money the more that they are going to buy from us.

Originally Posted by PinestrawGuys

I know where all the workers went... to the big city where they could take construction jobs from Americans and make 3 times the money!!!

You got that right! I have a cousin in Detroit and there is no such thing as an American worker on 50% of the better paying jobs (or a job that used to pay better before it was underbid by an illegal) now belong to illegals. There's plenty of illegal labor. They just don't want to pick fruit and veggies anymore, so they undercut Americans for the better jobs that are left after our illustrious leaders sent all the other jobs out of the country.