{"id":45,"date":"2005-03-25T02:05:36","date_gmt":"2005-03-25T06:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/03\/25\/labor-squeeze-along-the-border\/"},"modified":"2005-03-25T02:05:36","modified_gmt":"2005-03-25T06:05:36","slug":"labor-squeeze-along-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/03\/25\/labor-squeeze-along-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Squeeze Along the Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a62'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Miriam Jordan, Wall Street Journal Online, March 12, 2005 (May require subscription)<\/p>\n<p>(Subtitle: A labor shortage among lettuce pickers spotlights one of the<br \/>\ntrickiest issues in the immigration debate: how to close the U.S.<br \/>\nborder to drugs and terrorists without stopping the flow of illegal<br \/>\nworkers who prop up big industries.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; A former U.S. ambassador and currently the president of a powerful<br \/>\nfarming association [Western Growers], Mr. Nassif told [the U.S. Border<br \/>\nPatrol] that the agency couldn&#8217;t have picked a worse time to beef up<br \/>\nenforcement. Didn&#8217;t they know it was lettuce season? &#8230;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/p>\n<p>What part of &#8220;illegal&#8221; is the<br \/>\ntrickiest for you, Ms. Jordan? But let&#8217;s not drag principles into this.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s run those numbers again, Mr. Nassif. (Excuse me: Mr. Ambassador!)<br \/>\nAmericans won&#8217;t pick lettuce for $5\/hr x 40 hr\/wk x 50wk\/yr =<br \/>\n$10,000\/yr? Of course not. They should put in a full day&#8211;and week and<br \/>\nyear, for that matter. They should be picking lettuce 10hr\/day x 6<br \/>\nday\/wk x 52 wk\/yr. Especially if they like kids. OK, so clever growers<br \/>\npay $4\/hr, max. Still! That&#8217;s $12,480\/yr.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Miriam Jordan, Wall Street Journal Online, March 12, 2005 (May require subscription) (Subtitle: A labor shortage among lettuce pickers spotlights one of the trickiest issues in the immigration debate: how to close the U.S. border to drugs and terrorists without stopping the flow of illegal workers who prop up big industries.) &#8230; A former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}