Grim Reap

Some crops are currently wasting away in fields because there aren’t enough workers to pick them. Wait, what gives? I thought the plan was to chase away immigrant labor and wait for Americans to come take the jobs that are rightfully theirs? Well, it went something like this: “High wage mandates have ‘not resulted in a meaningful increase in new entrants of U.S. workers to temporary or seasonal agricultural jobs.’ Farmers received applications from U.S. workers for only 182 of 415,000 positions advertised in the last fiscal year.” WSJ (Gift Article): The Farm Labor Shortfall Bites.