There’s no denying that agriculture heavily relies on illegal immigrants, and, from what I gather, it’s assumed that 40 to 50 percent of all agriculture workers are illegal immigrants. For better or worse, illegal immigration is a key part of agriculture. How should America handle this? For what it’s worth, these are the options I thought of:
*Expand/Create a visa program for low skill agriculture workers.
*Subsidize farming enough that your average Ameircan will want to do it.
*Create a federal program to use prison labor for farm labor
What do you all think?
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We can put illegal immigrants farmers in jail, then take them out to farm and pay them prison wages.
Thats one of your options there.
We can call the program 30 years of farming for citizenship.
We have a visa that does exactly that. It’s the H-2A Temporary Agricultural Workers program.
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Use Singapores approach to labour.
Bring workers from Malaysia in on short term visas. They have no pathway to citizenship and must not go beyond their term.
They’re often housed free in separate communities and have meals covered. They make small money but they save everything they earn and when they go back home it’s decent money for their families.
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Trumps got this in the works.
The way we always have…with a visa.
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No.
Conservatives don’t want you to implement any new programs to deal with this issue.
Simply enforce immigration rules, stop importing cheap labor, and let the market sort itself out. Food prices might rise a tad, but Americans will find ways to do those jobs for livable wages. We’ll all be better off.
Is automation just simply out of the question? Like, we have machinery that can do the job of a 100 men. For the farmers that can’t afford it the government can just give them a zero interest loan.
The “but who will pick our crops” question has been asked in the US before since 1860. The market will fill the void. We don’t need any of your listed options.