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$9.00/Hr Vs. $11.00/Day: The True Motives
Posted by Kim on September 5th, 2007
Good.
Farming since he was a teenager, Mr. Scaroni, 50, built a $50 million business growing lettuce and broccoli in the fields of California, relying on the hands of immigrant workers, most of them Mexican and many probably in the United States illegally.
But early last year he began shifting part of his operation to rented fields here. Now some 500 Mexicans tend his crops in Mexico, where they run no risk of deportation.
“I’m as American red-blood as it gets,” Mr. Scaroni said, “but I’m tired of fighting the fight on the immigration issue.”
Riddance.
American business owners who use illegals to perform work in the US are breaking laws. So when I read about them moving their crapass businesses to Mexico, I say: GOOD RIDDANCE.
Empathy? Sympathy? No feelings I have towards these red blooded smucks.
Western Growers, an association representing farmers in California and Arizona, conducted an informal telephone survey of its members in the spring. Twelve large agribusinesses that acknowledged having operations in Mexico reported a total of 11,000 workers here.
“It seems there is a bigger rush to Mexico and elsewhere,” said Tom Nassif, the Western Growers president, who said Americans were also farming in countries in Central America.
The more the better. Go where the labor is cheap. Stop using up resources from the US. We’re all better off with these farms moving.
“I have a customer base that demands we produce and deliver product every day,” he said. “They don’t want to hear the excuses.” He acknowledges that wages are much lower in Mexico; he pays $11 a day here as opposed to about $9 an hour in California. But without legal workers in California, he said, “I have no choice but to offshore my operation.”
THERE it is.
Proof positive this is all about profit and nothing else. And Mr. Scaroni does have choices. He made his. Along with his fellow farmers who chose to leave the US and make their money elsewhere, it saves the US taxpayer millions, if not billions. The programs and other resources being sucked up by illegal workers will no longer be an issue if they all leave. I would be content with that. As for losing American businesses, too damn bad now isn’t it? Let them go. They don’t deserve to called an AMERICAN business.
We have choices as well. Raven has written it here: Buy local. Surely there are local farms in your area where one can purchase their lettuce and other veggies. We have them all over NH; when I lived in Alaska little farm stands were everywhere as well. If they have them there, they have them everywhere. BUY LOCAL and put the farmers who employ illegals out of business. Spend a few cents more, but save your country billions.
September 5th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Nice post. Good riddance indeed!
If we could get rid of the crooked employers hiring illegal aliens then the illegal aliens would self deport and most of the problem would be solved.
I just had a daydream. All the crooked US employers move to Mexico and become Mexican citizens. Then we bar imports and illegal immigration and let them be Mexican. Justice all the way around.