• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    How about farm workers … I’m up in Canada and I know because I’ve seen entire farm communities in southern Ontario base their entire business on immigrant labor that was either legal, illegal and everything in between. Around Norfolk (a region southwest of Toronto), entire towns are filled with Mexican, Haitian, Dominican and more recently, African workers as labor for the planting, management and harvest.

    We all have cheap vegetables in North America because of cheap immigrant labor that our governments allow into the country to work (for little to no money) but not to stay.

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      7 hours ago

      Farm workers will definitely be another one. And farms are massive corporate businesses now overall. The age of the small farmer is mostly over.

      This actually happened in Georgia a few years ago when they got more draconian on undocumented immigrants. Crops were withering in the fields.