Guess who is short of farm workers? - American Thinker
For decades, Mexicans crossed the border to pick Americans’ lettuce, grapes and strawberries. Mexico had a seemingly inexhaustible supply of farmhands — tough, hard-working men who did the jobs most Americans didn’t want.But the country is running short of farmworkers.The workforce is graying; nearly three-quarters of https://www.inegi.org.mx/contenidos/saladeprensa/boletines/2023/CA_Def/CA_Def2022.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1712584849507000&usg=AOvVaw294yvQ_sOnlIsg5Er6zRu Y">Mexican campesinos are over 45. Young people are turning up their noses at farm jobs. And those willing to do migrant work have other options. Nearly 300,000 a year travel to the United States on seasonal agricultural visas, a fourfold increase in a decade.
“They’re taking a significant percentage of the available workers,” fretted Aldo Mares, a farm executive here in Jalisco state. He’s had to scramble this season to find workers to pick his juicy strawberries, blackberries and raspberries.
