No pickers means no produce.

If all the immigrant workers get bused back to Mexico who will keep picking the fruit and vegetables that goes onto the shop shelves and on to your dinner table?

What do readers think would be a reasonable hourly wage to get paid for picking fruit if you had to help harvest a crop and get it to market?

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DrWatson · 70-79, M

More than one grower has had their workers deported and found themselves unable to hire any citizens to do the work. So they bought machinery. But machinery does not spend a paycheck at the local businesses in town.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@DrWatson Our whole system is pretty broken. I find it amazing. The essentials like food and clean water we don't value and never want to pay a lot but we can spend $1,700 on a phone. We have some strange priorities.

thisguy20 · 41-45, M

@JimboSaturn Completely understand your point. BUT even if I was a trillionaire I wouldn't spend anywhere near 1K let alone approaching 2K on a phone