Re: Crops Rotting In Fields, Food Prices To Rise

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

. . .

"Without illegals, who will pick the blueberries?"

Can I point out for the 1,342nd time on Usenet that itinerant
agricultural laborers are NOT immigrants, legal or otherwise. They are
admitted into the United States as such, follow the harvesting from one
farm to the next. Their wages are not defined as earned income for the
purpose of the tax code. They are ineligible for Social Security
pensions and Medicare and are not issued SSNs. They leave the United
States when there is no more harvesting to be performed.

If they don't leave, only then do they become illegal.

Farmers successfully lobbied for this special treatment decades ago.

Well, Karen, let's start with your jobless 22-year-old, blue-haired,
Reddit-addicted trans son with a degree in Intersectional Queerness who lives
in your basement?

That's a scary image. Lemme check to see if my basement is so infested.