100's of thousands of Migrant farm workers come to Canada and the U.S. each year to work our fields, ensuring our food supply is mainatained. Approx. 350,000 to Canada alone.
The latest from "the Throne" : A further restriction to Mexican migrant workers....... "His" favorite topic,recently lost amidst the current news. More like a "typical" deflection from the real crisis.
Conversely; Canada recognises the critical part that these foreign workers play in putting food on our tables. Canada is allowing these workers to come to Canada conditional on a closely monitored quarantine period and - Canada's health care system applying to these essential workers., as it should.
Seems like a simple solution as far as the U.S. is concerned.
1) Step down from the Band-Wagon and let these workers into the States to provide for the continuity of the food supply,
2) Do not let them in and watch food prices go through the roof due to severe shortages, or
3) "Swords to ploughshares" The unemployed "Gun totters" that are complaining about their "civil rights" can be conscripted to "work the fields" ! Then they can start earning an income (which could for the interm be tax free) while additionally allowing them to return to their disenfranchised normalsey so they can get their (as reported), hair-cuts, petacures, paint, lawn-seed and enjoy their gun-ranges and bowling alleys".
Ironic: Migrant workers have historicaly been a vital labor necessity (Canada & the U.S.) because "nobody else" wants these jobs.
It's horrifying to wach U.S. news video of thousands of acres of fresh produce being left to literally rot in the fields due to no man-power to harvest it, a current lack of infrastructure to get it to market and more specifically the reduction of retail and wholesale purchasing due to the economiic crisis. In my small agricultural town, thousands of liters of raw milk being dumped for similar reasons.........while millions around the world are starving....to death! Sadly, the logistics to redirect this "waste", is impractical/impossable to implement and is simply being plowed under or sprayed on fields, as fertilzer. As if we don't already get enough of that, on a daily basis !
This is a particulariy good example of why centralization of food processing - massive plants for beef, poultry and pork (as the most obvious), is the preverbial Pitbull biting us in the ass and is potentially going to see us as the dogs breakfast, if there's not a revision to the food industrialization.