{UAH} Do you think that Americans would take the jobs left vacant if all illegal immigrants were to return to their countries?

Jeff Redman 

I was born in the USA. Nearly 70 years ago.

When I was in my 20s and out of work I picked fruit for a couple weeks near Vacaville, California.

I was hired by a labor contractor. Al [AL, not AI], a friend of mine, and I showed up to the pickup point in Sacramento at 5:30am and got on a bus. When that bus left it was full of about 30 "American boys" ranging in age, as best I can recall, from 17 to late 20s.

We were picking apricots that day along side seasoned Mexican pickers. We were being paid by the box and, despite stopping to teach us more efficient ways to pick, those men and women still out picked us about 4 to one. By the 10am lunch break it was about 90 degrees in that orchard. When lunch break ended, nearly half the guys who'd been on the bus with us did not return to the field (I have no idea how they got back to Sacramento).

The next morning Al and I, sore as we were, were the only ones on the bus and when we arrived those same Mexican pickers were already in the orchard working.

Higher pay might attract more "Americans" to try, but in my opinion agricultural work requires a level of intelligence, skill, strength, and stamina that is greater than nearly all of us "Americans" are willing to provide.

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