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Originally Posted by rogue
Well, the farmer gets about 24 percent of the price of his produce. Of that percentage the farmer's cost of migrant field labor is about one third. That breaks down to about 8 to 10 percent of the price of produce going to migrant field worker labor. Where's a nit picker when you need them?
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In the absence of any other info about it, I'll have to go by your figures.
So, if the potential price increases of food is a red herring, must there be some other reason so may people agitate against anti-alien laws?
(I do find it remarkable that the most violently vocal defender of Mexican, women or other minority rights tend to be moderately affluent white males. Very odd phenomenon...)