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Mexico running out of farm workers
Posted on 4/8/24 at 3:38 pm
Posted on 4/8/24 at 3:38 pm
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/guess_who_is_short_of_farm_workers.html
For decades, Mexicans crossed the border to pick Americans’ lettuce, grapes and strawberries. Mexico had a seemingly inexhaustible supply of farmhands — tough, hard-working men who did the jobs most Americans didn’t want.
But the country is running short of farmworkers.
The workforce is graying; nearly three-quarters of Mexican campesinos are over 45. Young people are turning up their noses at farm jobs. And those willing to do migrant work have other options. Nearly 300,000 a year travel to the United States on seasonal agricultural visas, a fourfold increase in a decade.
“They’re taking a significant percentage of the available workers,” fretted Aldo Mares, a farm executive here in Jalisco state. He’s had to scramble this season to find workers to pick his juicy strawberries, blackberries and raspberries.
For decades, Mexicans crossed the border to pick Americans’ lettuce, grapes and strawberries. Mexico had a seemingly inexhaustible supply of farmhands — tough, hard-working men who did the jobs most Americans didn’t want.
But the country is running short of farmworkers.
The workforce is graying; nearly three-quarters of Mexican campesinos are over 45. Young people are turning up their noses at farm jobs. And those willing to do migrant work have other options. Nearly 300,000 a year travel to the United States on seasonal agricultural visas, a fourfold increase in a decade.
“They’re taking a significant percentage of the available workers,” fretted Aldo Mares, a farm executive here in Jalisco state. He’s had to scramble this season to find workers to pick his juicy strawberries, blackberries and raspberries.
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Posted on 4/8/24 at 3:44 pm to Jack Carter
The market always finds a way
Posted on 4/8/24 at 3:44 pm to Jack Carter
Maybe they should build a wall to keep them in.
Posted on 4/8/24 at 3:47 pm to Jack Carter
They could keep the Venezuelans, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, and Hondurans that are transiting their country and use them as farm hands.
Posted on 4/8/24 at 3:52 pm to Jack Carter
get them from asia, you can get even cheaper labor from there, ask the Oil Sheiks, they won't even use Hispanic labor, Asians come cheaper and no one misses them, when they die on projects, they find even more to replace.
Posted on 4/8/24 at 4:19 pm to Jack Carter
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“They’re taking a significant percentage of the available workers,”
We aren't taking anything. You're people are leaving because outside of a select few areas Mexico is a ... you got it... shithole country.
Posted on 4/8/24 at 4:28 pm to Jack Carter
Keep some of the Venezuelans that are traveling through.
Posted on 4/8/24 at 4:31 pm to Jack Carter
They are all over here in America working at farms for less than min wage...
Posted on 4/8/24 at 5:25 pm to Tantal
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They could keep the Venezuelans, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, and Hondurans that are transiting their country and use them as farm hands.
Mexican are racist and hate those groups and treat them like shite in their country
Posted on 4/8/24 at 5:31 pm to Jack Carter
“If there’s one thing Mexico has a lot of, it’s Mexicans”
Not so fast my friend.
Not so fast my friend.
Posted on 4/8/24 at 5:48 pm to RaoulDuke504
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Mexican are racist and hate those groups and treat them like shite in their country
Mexicans hate Mexicans too. Spanish Mexicans vs Indigenous.
Posted on 4/8/24 at 6:20 pm to SlowFlowPro
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The market always finds a way
Their workers are fleeing to a welfare state
Posted on 4/8/24 at 6:27 pm to Ray Ray Rodman
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They are all over here in America working at farms for less than min wage...
They do not bitch about it. They actually want to work.
Minimum wage is too low to pay anyone. If they are doing hard work, yes, pay them more if you are able to afford it.
This post was edited on 4/8/24 at 6:31 pm
Posted on 4/8/24 at 6:28 pm to concrete_tiger
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Mexicans hate Mexicans too. Spanish Mexicans vs Indigenous.
This. Ruling class Spaniards got theirs and have pulled the ladder up behind them.
Posted on 4/8/24 at 6:30 pm to SlowFlowPro
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The market always finds a way
Hey look this moron doesn’t know what he is talking about again
Posted on 4/8/24 at 6:31 pm to OceanMan
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Hey look this moron doesn’t know what he is talking about again
He, She, Tans, never does.
Posted on 4/8/24 at 6:32 pm to chili pup
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They do not bitch about it. They actually want to work
And to those, maybe we can consider a work visa.
But no voting rights until and/or if you become a legal citizen.
The ones causing the trouble are probably not those that want to come here to better themselves honestly through work.
To those........to quote PDJT, "You have to go back."
Posted on 4/8/24 at 6:35 pm to Jack Carter
Why would they work on a farm for tortillas when they can come here and get a free debit card?
Posted on 4/8/24 at 6:36 pm to SlowFlowPro
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The market always finds a way
Please enlighten us troglodytes on how Capitalism in Mexico will find a way to fill those jobs.
Mexico is much closer to a centrally planned economy where there is little to no middle class.
Maybe you can see the left pushing for that here?
Maybe not.
Posted on 4/8/24 at 6:39 pm to texag7
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free debit card?
Don't forget that Obama phone.
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