MSNBC has been running a five-part series entitled “What’s Eating America?.” It endorses the claim that we must have mass immigration to harvest our crops. Joe Guzzardi, an analyst for Progressives for Immigration reform, responded to this claim with the following comment:
“The MSNBC mini-series made no mention of lasting solutions – like farm mechanization – that has transformed agriculture and is successful with domestic crops, including blueberries and tomatoes. In the 1960s, tomato growers insisted that the Bracero guest worker program was absolutely essential to their industry’s survival. Nevertheless, Congress discontinued the Bracero program. Growers then invested in new mechanized innovations. The result: Tomato production increased several-fold over the following decades, and real prices fell.”
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