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Farmer-Rick

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11. The US has a legal seasonal, foreign migrant, farm and food processing workers
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 12:08 PM
Nov 2024

The immigrants are brought in legally. Corporations use them all the time in very large numbers. At a minimum there are about a million workers and their families brought in to work in just the fields and slaughter houses in the US. They go from crop to crop, state to state, picking fruits and vegetables, working in slaughterhouses, warehouses and feed lots as the work comes into season.

Unless they end these programs such as H-1B and H-2A visas. The immigrants will still be here working jobs at wages lower than US minimum wage. Amazon, Google, Apple, Walmart and Tyson would go bankrupt if they stopped bringing into the US desperate people to work for pennies.

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