I guess she knows they don't grow many oranges in Iowa, so I guess she was hinting at Florida and California. My cousins milk 700 cows, and they employ six or seven Mexican workers to do the milking, working around the clock in shifts. They like Mexican workers because they stay around for a while, don't have competing interests, do a good job, etc. They sometimes have American college students working for them, but they don't focus as well, and want time off for various personal pursuits, quit when they get tired of the job, etc. The Mexican workers are there to earn money they send back home, so they're more committed to the job. When they quit, they usually have a brother or cousin lined up to take their place.

OK, I can see the need to make sure they're here legally, but the Donald and his buddies are whipping up fear of the Brown Wave washing over our country and taking all the jobs from deserving Americans. Just not true. If he wants to look at immigrants stealing American jobs, he would do better to examine H1B visa holders, and how his corporate pals want to expand that program.

crops were rotting in the fields in the South because of lack of workers. Fear on the side of employers and on the side of worker.


I also know about the big dairy farms here in WI. They say the local workers do not want the long hours and low pay. --and it is hard labor a lot of time. I grew up on a small dairy farm and it was work around the clock for the most part. the farmers want a steady work force for one thing. Until we have comprehensive reform, these dairy farmers are out of luck.

My cousins live in WI, about 30 miles west of Eau Claire.

mom last few years-about 30 miles E. of EC. small world isn't it.