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While there are benefits for Mexico, as American farmers bring the latest technology and techniques to its crop-producing regions, American farm state economists say thousands of middle-class jobs supporting agriculture are being lost in the United States. Some lawmakers in the United States also point to security risks when food for Americans is increasingly produced in foreign countries.

Tramping through one of his first lettuce crops near Celaya, an agribusiness hub in Guanajuato, Mr. Scaroni is more candid than many farmers about his move here. He had made six trips to Washington, he said, to plead with Congress to provide more legal immigrants fo...

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From the article:

While there are benefits for Mexico, as American farmers bring the latest technology and techniques to its crop-producing regions, American farm state economists say thousands of middle-class jobs supporting agriculture are being lost in the United States. Some lawmakers in the United States also point to security risks when food for Americans is increasingly produced in foreign countries.

Tramping through one of his first lettuce crops near Celaya, an agribusiness hub in Guanajuato, Mr. Scaroni is more candid than many farmers about his move here. He had made six trips to Washington, he said, to plead with Congress to provide more legal immigrants for agriculture.

“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.”

Why?
How will I ever learn anything if I only am interested in what I already know?

I have a cousin who works for a company Cropquest, which markets services to farmers that includes advice on application rates of herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers, and irrigation.

Are you implying that Mexican low cost laborers are going to take those types of jobs?
Seems to me that if a farmer needs an advisor they will have to pay more to get them to go to Mexico to assess their crops.

I am a member of FFA and I took Vo-Ag in High School and I have worked on a few farms in my youth.
I also work on Farm machinery.

Middle-Class pay is not paid for harvesting or tending crops. Of coarse m...

Why?
How will I ever learn anything if I only am interested in what I already know?

I have a cousin who works for a company Cropquest, which markets services to farmers that includes advice on application rates of herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers, and irrigation.

Are you implying that Mexican low cost laborers are going to take those types of jobs?
Seems to me that if a farmer needs an advisor they will have to pay more to get them to go to Mexico to assess their crops.

I am a member of FFA and I took Vo-Ag in High School and I have worked on a few farms in my youth.
I also work on Farm machinery.

Middle-Class pay is not paid for harvesting or tending crops. Of coarse middle-class pay range is very big.

The special educations and training the creates a middle-class is not required to harvest crops. That can be accomplished by high school drop-outs quite easily.

Middle-Class agricultural jobs usually deal with specialties and/or experience. Farmers will still need those specialists to perform their certain duties. Only now they will need them in Mexico. Either pay the middle-class more to relocate or train Mexicans to perform those duties in Mexico.
If they relocate US workers to Border towns or into Mexico they will have to increase the pay as the demand increases. If they choose to train the Mexicans, They will be helping Mexicans to learn trades that are valuable to their nation. Once they are trained they can say that they want more money, benefits and their standards of living will increase accordingly.
Now, If they successfully train Mexicans to do those types of specialties, as the workforce in Mexico grows the counter-part specialists in the US will show a decrease in job availability. Either wages for the US specialists will drop or there will be less specialists trained. As the jobs drop, The middle-class specialist will broaden their specialties to encompass a wider job market. This will be good for schools.

Your economics lesson sounds vaguely familiar. Oh yeah sounds like the destruction of the US textile industry via the Caribbean Initiative begun under poppy Bush.

Let's see, they make $11 a day now working in Mexico when they made $90 a day working in the US. Hispanics are enterprising, even though $9 an hour might be challenging for US citizens Mexicans manage to save money and send it back to their extended families, thus making Mexico more affluent.

How in the world are you going to convince US citizens (and why would you) to move to Mexico to keep their jobs when conservatives have vilified Mexicans as being lawless drunken welfare recipients who ruin our country? My conservative cousi...

Your economics lesson sounds vaguely familiar. Oh yeah sounds like the destruction of the US textile industry via the Caribbean Initiative begun under poppy Bush.

Let's see, they make $11 a day now working in Mexico when they made $90 a day working in the US. Hispanics are enterprising, even though $9 an hour might be challenging for US citizens Mexicans manage to save money and send it back to their extended families, thus making Mexico more affluent.

How in the world are you going to convince US citizens (and why would you) to move to Mexico to keep their jobs when conservatives have vilified Mexicans as being lawless drunken welfare recipients who ruin our country? My conservative cousin hates Mexicans but now maybe he is realizing he is shooting himself in the foot.

Interesting, If what you say is accurate(no offense), It would seem that Mexico should be improving through it's current immigrant operations. This makes me wonder if the money that is being sent home is being used to better their lives or being wasted or stolen?

Mexico's problems may not be money related but a values deficiency.

I believe the US worker can rebound from any drop in opportunity because we seem to be smart enough to make the changes we need to when the need arises.

I thought this could be a great opportunity for Mexicans to create a better society. It seems stereotyping is kinda accurate when it comes to this society. For that I am sorry for them.

I don't believe US worker...

Interesting, If what you say is accurate(no offense), It would seem that Mexico should be improving through it's current immigrant operations. This makes me wonder if the money that is being sent home is being used to better their lives or being wasted or stolen?

Mexico's problems may not be money related but a values deficiency.

I believe the US worker can rebound from any drop in opportunity because we seem to be smart enough to make the changes we need to when the need arises.

I thought this could be a great opportunity for Mexicans to create a better society. It seems stereotyping is kinda accurate when it comes to this society. For that I am sorry for them.

I don't believe US workers will be beating feet to go work in Mexico. I believe the farmers will have to pay dearly for their specialists.

While the labor may be cheaper this seems like a bad move. Perhaps the farmers just need to increase the wages of their resident workers - problem is - they will increase the prices on their product line to offset the costs and I won't be able to afford lettuce. I'm glad I have my own garden.

Mexico does improve it's economy by having citizens work in the US. However its problems may be bigger than the economic stimuli that those incoming funds generate.

I do remember reading an article about the giant Mexican cement company Cemex, which was trying to either decrease or extinguish the practice of Mexican families having lavish parties for their daughters 16th birthdays and instead having them invest that money in improving the quality of their dwellings.

I don't believe that Mexico suffers from a values deficiency. Conservatives were hopeful at one time that they would make inroads with Hispanics because of their strong family values but then they shot themselves in the foot o...

Mexico does improve it's economy by having citizens work in the US. However its problems may be bigger than the economic stimuli that those incoming funds generate.

I do remember reading an article about the giant Mexican cement company Cemex, which was trying to either decrease or extinguish the practice of Mexican families having lavish parties for their daughters 16th birthdays and instead having them invest that money in improving the quality of their dwellings.

I don't believe that Mexico suffers from a values deficiency. Conservatives were hopeful at one time that they would make inroads with Hispanics because of their strong family values but then they shot themselves in the foot over Immigration Policy. Interestingly Mexicans blame the drug problem on a US values deficiency. No illicit drug demand, no drug problem.

Increasing wages is not going to solve US farmers problems. Conservatives pushed through legislation that makes it criminal to hire foreign workers. Employers have 90 days to prove that the person they hired is not illegal as determined by the US database. Farmers don't have the resources to prove their employees status or fight it. Therefore they just simply don't hire that person. There goes the job, there goes the cash flow that used to circulate through US stores, restaurants, car lots, ................ there goes the farm to Mexico.

Our society is based on independence and opportunity with equality...even if it doesn't operate the way it should at all times. The Mexican society is based on a feudal system where mestizos and Native Americans are on the bottom and Spanish, French and recent nobles lead their hierarchy.

We all know this.

One only need look to the state of Oaxaca where people are disappeared by the state government, yet no one, including us, does anything to help these people. Is it because they are too dark? Not adaptive enough? OR Is it because their feudal system is corrupt?....like all feudal systems.

Unfortunately, Mexico will never solve their economic problems as long as the gap between rich an...

Our society is based on independence and opportunity with equality...even if it doesn't operate the way it should at all times. The Mexican society is based on a feudal system where mestizos and Native Americans are on the bottom and Spanish, French and recent nobles lead their hierarchy.

We all know this.

One only need look to the state of Oaxaca where people are disappeared by the state government, yet no one, including us, does anything to help these people. Is it because they are too dark? Not adaptive enough? OR Is it because their feudal system is corrupt?....like all feudal systems.

Unfortunately, Mexico will never solve their economic problems as long as the gap between rich and poor is so wide. It is hard to think and adapt when you and all your family are working like slaves....just to get enough to live day to day.

Historically, America did have ongoing political solutions, such as the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and similar legislation. These laws created a legacy of American policies that included land and money distribution tactics to help prevent a great divide between the American classes and maintain a vertical flow within the upper, middle and lower classes.

Ours is not a perfect system, by any means, but it was born of an extreme EFFORT to be egalitarian within the framework of an effective economic flow of money, ideas and goods and services.

The best this country could hope for is to let each of the Mexican states apply, en masse, to become territories and eventually states in the United States. This seems an unlikely proposition.

Instead, it seems that the Mexican ruling class wants to join with the fathers of the North American Union to make an end run around our US Constitutional solution in favor of increasing the power of a growing American class of :"exploitation experts".