Thread: The Republican Mass Deportation Plan: Expand E-Verify, Send

From comments here, there must be some real disparity in what agricultural workers get paid from state to state. In Washington state, pruners, thinners, etc. get paid anywhere from $11 to $15.00 dollars an hour. Pickers are paid by the bin. The workers are 95% Hispanic. Some are legal and some are illegal, the majority of both groups do not speak English. Right now with the employment situation what it is in the U.S., many native born American men would work those jobs. The entire agricultural scene, at least in Washington state, is run like a Mexican mafia.

Just what percentage of illegals even work in agriculture? In my area, they work in construction and manufacturing, with a few in Hispanic owned landscaping companies.

E-Verify is not part of a plan to deport illegals. It merely ensures that jobs will go to citizens and those here legally. Hopefully, it would be highly successful and in combination with reducing free benefits to illegals would result in self-deportations.