Thread: Technology Trumps Illegal Labor (Ag Jobs)

Technology Trumps Illegal Labor
By Steven Yates
Published: 2007-02-19

With the Democratic Party now at the helm of Congress, amnesty legislation for illegal aliens is back with a vengeance. AgJOBS bills — which would provide paths to full U.S. citizenship for illegal aliens working in agriculture — have been reintroduced in both the Senate (S. 237) and the House (H.R. 371). Sponsored by Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Howard Berman (D-Calif.) respectively, these bills are purportedly meant to help U.S. agriculture compete in a global economy, but because the agricultural industries in other countries pay their laborers so much less compared to the United States, the bills are unlikely to do any such thing.

AgJOBS legislation would identify “vacantâ€

Good article.


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Call the Senate: NO AgJOBS Amnesty !

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[quote="Cakers"]Florida orange growers were beginning to adopt canopy shakers, machines capable of dislodging some 36,000 pounds of oranges from 100 orange trees in just 15 minutes. “This would have taken four pickers all day long,â€