Down on the farm: A shortage of agricultural labor

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If you like to eat, you can thank a farm worker, among the hardest-working, lowest-paid, yet most vital workers in America. Correspondent Luke Burbank talks with Shay Myers, a third-generation Oregon farmer who feels it’s important that agricultural workers get their due.

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48 COMMENTS

  1. So what this company owner is saying is that he is missing illegal immigrant labor and doesn't want to pay a living wage for an American. That's the "shortage". Nice…….

  2. I’m an immigrant myself about 55 years ago. I know how hard it is to work in this country, luckily I came here through the proper channels, but I do have empathy for these workers. My deepest congratulations for mr Myers for giving his employees the chance to improve themselves. Very few employers do that. Bless you.

  3. This is when the US and some other countries, but mainly the US, have to realise that their quality of life is dependent on the graft of low paid workers many from other countries or the low cost labour in other countries.

  4. If it’s such hard work than pay better and Americans will work for you, business is a competition if you want to compete with other employers than compete don’t hog up the profits and ask taxpayers to pay for everything that these invaders need.

  5. Border problems could easily be solved by streamlining the system. Simply offer cost-deferred visas and work permits, along with background check for anyone who wants to visit and/or work. This way non-citizens could be taxed to cover indigents, and law enforcement could focus on real dangerous people.

    People crossing national borders are no more or less bad for the country than people crossing state borders. Population increase through immigration is just as good or better economically than population increase through domestic birth. The vast majority of people trying to get in could afford temporary housing to get started, but end up losing their life savings paying crooked smugglers to get them past our absurd restrictions. This is all counterproductive and just political pandering.

  6. !!!YOU MORONS!!!! AS A NATIVE MEXICAN AMERICAN I CAN TELL YOU FOR A FACT THAT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING INN THEY'RE NOT AGRICULTURE WORKERS THEY'RE MOSTLY FACTORY, WAREHOUSE AND OFFICE WORKERS AND MANY OF THEM ARE COMING TO LIVE OF THE GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS THAT THEY AUTOMATICALLY ENROLLED BY THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION OFFICERS WHEN THEY CROSS THE BORDER ILLEGALLY, I KNOW FOR A FACT BECAUSE I TALK TO A LOT OF THEM!!!👈👈

  7. Build that wall dang it. We can starve together. We all know right wingers and they're culture issues are much more important than food, highways, homes, meat & food processing. Hungary? Thank Trump, Abbott and DeSatan.😮

  8. Sin mencionar que los indocumentados, nunca tendrán un cheque del gobierno cuando se “retiren”. Esa es la clave de porque no hay una reforma migratoria!

  9. Nice try for a false liberal narrative…….but the truth is the millions of illegals coming across the border are here but too good to work in fields. The liberal democrats are paying for everything from free healthcare, education, cell phones and anything in between. Why do you think this is all occurring! This guy got scammed by his own democratic buddies. Hey why don’t you do a story on stop the lies from the disaster Biden clown show and lunatic liberals. We aren’t buying 😂

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