Import Workers, or Import Food

Misplaced outrage at the immigrants who harvest our crops puts the U.S. at a global disadvantage.

• ...immigrant workers are allowing U.S. farmers to compete in a fierce global marketplace, and that losing the workforce means losing domestic sources of food.

• "Farmers all over the world are salivating at the prospect that we won't be able to produce here," says James Holt, an agricultural labor economist. "They are more than happy to produce for us."

• "A country not in control of its food supply is a weak nation."

I'm not pushing amnesty, but I want non-enforcement until or unless we have the workers in the U.S. to fill these jobs.

We are nation of laws - badly written and selectively enforced. This crackdown on immigrants is misplaced, misguided, emotionally-driven politics and is simply bad policy. If there were Americans who would do this work that'd be another thing. If these immigrants are stealing jobs, where are the Americans who are supposedly being stolen from? They don't exist.
- posted by john @ 9:07 AM