EXPLOITING ILLEGAL FARM WORKERS... Besides the Farm Workers Themselves, Who Really Pays For All This "CHEAP" Labor?

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THESE FIGURES ON WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY ARE DATED. IT NOW EXCEEDS $600 MILLION PER YEAR!!! (sources: Los Angeles County & JUDICIAL WATCH)



California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer are two of the most corrupt politicians in American history. This corruption has made them filthy rich. Feinstein has acquired $50 million in mansions scattered around the country while in elected office, her last the FEINSTEIN WAR PROFITEER MANSION in S.F. that cost her $16 million.



Feinstein has long hired illegals at her S.F. hotel, and pushes for Obama's various amnesties, or at least continued non-enforcement of laws prohibiting the employment of illegals.



Her colleague, Nancy Pelosi has long hired illegals at her St. Helena, Napa winery. She, like Obama lied that illegals are not included in OBAMAcare. There has never been an administration more infested with La Raza party members than Obama's.



Barbara Boxer endlessly hispandered for the illegals' votes during her last campaign. Both Boxer and Feinstein have pushed hard against voters demonstrating citizenship, or English ONLY in California.



Feinstein and Boxer have long taken huge bribes from BIG AG BIZ donors who shift the responsibility of paying living wages over to the local counties, and the State of California. California, which operates deficits of $28 BILLION per year, now puts out $20 BILLION per year in social services to illegals. Every county in California has a staggering tax bill to help subsidize employers of illegals. In Los Angeles alone, the figure is $600 million per year in welfare to illegals. The City of Los Angeles puts out $10 million per year for Mexican graffiti abatement.



Not once, but twice, Sen. Feinstein and Boxer have pushed for a "Special Amnesty" for 1.5 million illegals and their families to be exploited by Feinstein's BIG AG BIZ donors. THESE CORRUPT SENATORS ATTEMPTED THIS DESPITE THAT FACT THAT ONE-THIRD OF ALL ILLEGAL FARM WORKERS END UP ON WELFARE. No stats as to how many end up in Mexican gangs.



We can't fix our nation until we end the Mexican welfare state in our country. In reality, WE ARE MEXICO'S WELFARE, FREE ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING CENTERS, JOBS & JAILS PROGRAMS! To return American to the American people, we must rid ourselves of the hispanderers.



It works well for Mexico, and the exploiters of illegals, like Feinstein and Boxer's BIG AG BIZ donors also love it.



Then we need a dialogue on the assault on the American culture by Mexico's culture of racism, violence and loathing of Americans.



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Lou Dobbs Tonight Friday, May 16, 2008

Some in Congress are once again trying to push piecemeal immigration reform through the back door. Sen. Diane Feinstein of California attached a farm worker program to the multibillion-dollar Iraq war funding bill yesterday which would grant temporary amnesty to 1.3 million farm workers and their families over the next five years.



Farm exports and farm labor

Philip Martin

March 21, 2011

Would a Raise for Fruit and Vegetable Workers Diminish the Competitiveness of U.S. Agriculture?

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A quarter of the fresh fruit produced in the United States and almost a tenth of the fresh vegetables are exported. These exports—largely enabled by technology and transportation revolutions allowing fruits and vegetables to be consumed far from their place of production1 —are a significant and growing force in the U.S. economy. In 2008, U.S. agricultural exports of $115 billion exceeded agricultural imports of $80 billion, generating a $35 billion farm trade surplus. Between 1989 and 2009, the value of U.S. agricultural exports rose 2.5 times, while exports of highvalue agricultural products, including fruits and vegetables, more than tripled.

However, over the same 20-year period, average hourly earnings for U.S. farmworkers only increased $1.52, from $8.55 to $10.07 (in 2009 dollars). The workers who are helping to produce these labor-intensive commodities are not seeing much benefit from rising exports.

How would the competitiveness of U.S. fruit and vegetable exports be impacted if farmworker wages rose? And how would this affect the pocketbooks of U.S. consumers? By examining the links between U.S. farmworker wages and fruit and vegetable exports, this briefing paper answers these questions. Specifically, the paper finds:

• A 40% increase in farmworker earnings would lift a typical seasonal farmworker’s earnings from about $10,000 a year to $14,000 a year, above the poverty line for an individual.2

• A 40% increase in farmworker earnings would at the most raise U.S. household spending about $16 a year, roughly the price of two matinee movie tickets. U.S. consumers, who spent less than $430 per household on fresh fruits and vegetables in 2009, would need to spend less than $446 to accommodate the tiny share of retail prices going to farm labor.3 (This $16 estimate assumes that rising wages would not change production or consumption, which likely would change, as follows.)

• If farm labor costs rose, farm operators could and likely would make changes that increase worker productivity, including providing workers with productivity increasing harvesting aids, hastening the adoption of productivity-increasing growing and harvesting techniques, providing labor aids that reduce the physical demands of farm work and thus expand the potential workforce, and speeding the mechanization already underway in harvesting of commodities such as oranges and raisin grapes as well as in pre-harvesting activities such as pruning. (Producer responses would of course vary by commodity, producer size, and location.)

• If higher wages prompt changes by farm operators to boost worker productivity, wage increases might expand, rather than reduce, U.S. fruit and vegetable production.

• The impact of any price changes from increased wages (i.e., production cost increases not offset by corresponding increases in productivity but passed along to consumers) would be small because the major export markets for U.S. fresh fruits and vegetables—Canada and Mexico—have few lower cost alternative sources. (Rising U.S. farm wages may have relatively few shortterm impacts on certain high-value exports to Asian markets, but these exports could be threatened in the long run by the lower-cost, high-quality production in places such as China even at current wages.) In short, increasing farmworker wages to raise farmworkers out of poverty poses little threat to consumer pocketbooks or U.S. exports.

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