Despite a popular misconception, cheap labor is not what drives most farmers to employ immigrants and legal, non-immigrants. Some 70% of the Salinas Valley’s annual harvest is collected by immigrants. Many farmers and agricultural business owners claim that number is even higher. What does spur the...
Despite a popular misconception, cheap labor is not what drives most farmers to employ immigrants and legal, non-immigrants. Some 70% of the Salinas Valley’s annual harvest is collected by immigrants. Many farmers and agricultural business owners claim that number is even higher.
What does spur the hiring of immigrant and non-immigrant workers is that most local residents in any agricultural area don’t want to physically work in the fields.
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