Will I really have to pay 5 bucks for a head of lettuce after we get rid of the illegal invaders/immigrants?

Question

I respect the migrant farm workers,as a teenager a group of us in school worked odd jobs as a school project and donated the money made to the plight of the migrant farm workers.But i do know how to grow my own everything so i wont starve to death!

Answer 1

What leads you to believe anyone will get rid of illegals ? They're
like roaches, as fast as you can rid yourself of them, others are swimming across the border.
George Bush wants to give amnesty to all illegals currently in the
United States. Perhaps we should admit Mexico as the 51st state, then they would all go back from where they came.
And by this, I mean illegals only. I have no beef with legal immigrants.

Besides, has everyone forgotten that the recent e-coli outbreaks
seem to be connected to less-than-hygenic migrant (AKA illegal)
workers ?

Answer 2

If we lose all our illegal immigrants, farmers would start using H2A visa to get laborers. They already start doing so last year. The illegal immigrants make over $10 an hour. Legal immigrants with all the benefits might cost us $14 an hour. Part of the reason we started using legal immigrants was that illegal immigrants were demanding higher pay and it was making it more cost effective to use legal immigrants. SO as to the cost of food going up would be minimal, especially since it was going to go up anyways. As to lettuce prices, it won't change. They were overpriced after the flood a while back. Other fruits and vegetables would see a slight increase.

Answer 3

Of course not. That is just a scare tactic from people who don't want to lose their illegally obtained profits. People would go without or grow their own before they'd pay that much. And the farmers know that. They may try a price increase for a while but they'll lose money in the long run and prices will go back to normal or near enough. I'll pay a little more for my lettuce if I can stop paying for all the assistance illegals are getting.

Answer 4

Thats what big business, the liberals, and illegal immigrants want us to think. But in a study done by the U- of Iowa, farm prodice would only go up 3% in the summer, and 4 % in the winter. Whatever the price, I'd pay it.

Answer 5

Well, no. Studies have shown that if farmworker wages rose 40%, out of the poverty level (and where they were under the UFW of Cesar Chavez) the average American family would spend $10 more PER YEAR on produce. Most of the money is the land and irrigation and transportation etc, not in the labor.

Answer 6

a bottle of ketchup costing 2 dollars contains about 3 cents worth of tomato aspic. a box of cornflakes contains about 6 cents worht of corn. the rest is processing costs. the price of lettuce will go up about 5 percent but countering that will be alessening of gas costs housing costs. six of one but a half dozen of the other.

Answer 7

Food is very cheap because of illegals that sounds backwards and just wrong. I don't care if it goes up to $ 100 a head. I'm not in that much distress about it. Fiqure they will return to Mexico grow it there.

Answer 8

if those were the only jobs they do no one would complain.
but they are said to "only take jobs that Americans will not do".
personally i know illegal immigrants that waitress, and work factory jobs. and trust me, plenty of Americans do work those jobs.
and no lettuce will never be 5 dollars a head

Answer 9

maybe but when you think about all our taxes are paying for them anyway and don't you think the price will still go up when they are legal as they will have to be paid the same as everyone else and these companies will be forced to report them and pay workers comp insurance on them so that argument really holds no water, think about it .

Answer 10

People in Europe and Australia can afford to eat. There's aren't 25,000,000 illegal aliens there. So what is it that makes you think food will be unaffordable here without them?