“John Harold found himself short of workers to harvest his corn and onions after he decided to try to hire more local residents and fewer foreign laborers for his 1,000-acre farm.” (via Farmers Strain to Hire American Workers in Place of Migrant Labor - NYTimes.com)
“They wanted that $10.50 an hour without doing very much,” he said. “I know people with college degrees, working for the school system and only making 11 bucks.”
If you have tea party relatives that somehow try to reconcile their desire for stricter immigration laws with a support for the free market, send them this article immediately.
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nine times out of ten an immigrant will do the jobs we Americans are too ‘proud’ to do.
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