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Originally Posted by 70SATMan View Post
... the illegal problem with the constant supply of people to pay less. It does keep the prices of vegetables down in NM though doesn't it?....
That is one of those ideas that people feel so comfortable repeating. (cheaper vegetables.) Have you ever put a number to this? . ..a percentage? Of course it's California ...and labor/cost studies have been done. Anyway, going from memory, a head of lettuce would cost only pennies more (retail) if no Mexicans were around to pick it. --I expect that a quick web search will get the exact #'s
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