The supposed need for more agricultural laborers has, since the days of slavery, been a major justification for the use of cheap labor. In the long run though “cheap labor” is anything but cheap.
As agriculture continues to be mechanized/automatized/robotized, this excuse is less and less valid, if it ever was. Even the New York Times is discovering agricultural mechanization, though I doubt it will change the paper’s immigration outlook.
For the entire blog entry, click here. It contains a link to the NYT article, which has photos.
Blog entry by Allan Wall, published November 20th, 2018, on VDARE.COM.
Tags: Agricultural Mechanization, Agriculture, Automation, California, Cheap Labor, New York Times