[mikester]

I think this argument is twisted a bit - saying the Americans won't do labor intensive jobs is disingenuous. The problem is that Americans won't work in adverse conditions for crappy wages and under severly lax labor laws.

The laws governing this type of work are way different than 'regular' work. First, sure its minimum wage but there is no overtime and somehow the pay is tied to volume and not hours.

No worker's compensation? Whiskey tango foxtrot? What the heck is the farmworker's union doing anyway?

These are not fair jobs that anyone should be doing and the only reason they are getting done at all is because the farms are allowed to take advantage of the illegal immigrants.

Prices will go up if these basic laws that every other job has applied to them are applied here but sometimes what is right isn't always what is easy.