Farm owner: Without immigrants 'this town would die'

[DBoon]

10. Your example is an exception

Large scale farms have always relied on classes of people who could be forced to work long hours with little pay, had almost no legal protection, and were "people of color"

What farms are doing with illegal immigrants is an extension of what they have been doing for hundreds of years.

These farms were politically powerful enough to get exception written into federal labor protection laws to allow their slavery like conditions to continue. The NLRA and federal minimum wage laws always exempted agricultural labor for a reason.

Farmers in the California Central Valley enforced their rule over labor using fear and violence under condition resembling a police state, as Carey McWilliams had documented back in the 1930s

Your idyllic farm community (if it existed) was the exception.