The Immigration Problem That No One Wants To Solve Bruce Maiman Tue, May 16, 2023 at 3:45 a.m. MDT·11 min read One evening, while on the air doing my talk radio broadcast, I brought up the topic of immigration. A pear farmer in Lakeport, California, named Nick Ivicevich called. He had to step outside for better reception on his cellphone. As we spoke, you could hear periodic dull thuds in the background. No pattern to them. Thud. Thud-thud… thud. I finally asked him, “Nick, what is that I’m hearing in the background?” “Those are pears rotting off the trees in my grove out here,” he said. You could hear the angst and frustration in his voice. “I waited my whole life for a crop like this,” he said. It was his best pear-crop in 45 years of tending the trees in his grove, but like other Lakeport growers, his fruit rotted by the ton because he couldn’t find enough pickers to harvest them. Nick lost nearly two million pounds of pears. Not long afterward, The New York Times ran a front-page story on the plight of pear growers in Lake County, a region about 90 miles north of San Francisco and a part of California ideally suited for the crop. The accompanying photo of one family farmer sobbing into her hand as she stood before thousands of rotted pears on the ground was heartbreaking. That was in 2006. Nick died seven years later at age 77, but the situation for growers hadn’t changed. It was even worse. Pamela, Nick’s daughter, had taken over the 122-acre orchard that had been in the family since 1960. “Pears are labor-intensive crops, hand-harvested,” Pamela said. “We need a program that makes it easy for growers to hire people who know how to do this work without them worrying about how to get here to do it.” Every grower I have spoken to would agree, yet every grower I have ever spoken to, has blamed Washington’s inability to craft a sensible, reality-based immigration reform policy. Therein lies the heart of the matter: Immigration is a problem no one wants to solve. And I’m beginning to wonder if anyone in Washington even knows how to solve it, or worse, even wants to. Take Title 42, the public health border policy implemented during the pandemic... More...
He's not wrong.....though indistinguishable from tipping, low corporate taxes, deregulated industry, or a low minimum wage. Let's hear cons about fixing those.
Plantation USA. If Repubs insist on deporting them = automatic Dem vote. DINO democrat in name only, is the way to go(RFK Jr.)