Yep. All they have to do is get pregnant and they get 5 years worth of free welfare, health insurance, food stamps and who knows what else.
Do you enjoy fruits and vegetables? Without these people, you would have none. I agree though that they should pay taxes on their earnings. If they pay taxes on earnings through an EIN or W-2 of some sort, I'm on-board.
Do these people have a special skill set that make them masters at picking fruits and vegetables? What exactly is your logic?
And then there is the fact that (1) they take jobs from Americans, though ones Americans reluctant to take, (2) they drain our social support systems and medical care as freebies. We used to have a reasonable immigration policy... when the goal was primarily economic. Now that immigration is a political tool, it's no longer reasonable. I too, like fruits and veggies... but I'm not "on board" at all. Unfettered immigration is an existential threat to our country!
My logic is that many Americans will not toil in the fields doing the back-breaking menial labor that the farmhands do, for the pittance of a wage that those jobs pay.
They will. Employers would just have to pay them a lot more. And they probably would have to deal with regulatory agencies more so; since legal citizens won't be as afraid to file complaints.
Which is exactly why it's the immigrant labor doing the work. Because Americans would demand such high pay that the farmers could not afford it.