Re: Georgia's anti-immigrant law leaves millions in crops rotting in the fields

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Peter T. Chattaway wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, James wrote:

>> Or is $8/hr even lower than what one would get on some form of 
>> unemployment insurance or welfare?
>
> The real question is:  Is $8/hr the sort of wage that these farmers are 
> prepared to pay?  The whole point of permitting illegal immigrants, 
> after all, was that "they do the jobs that Americans won't do", right?

Ack, I see I should have read the story more closely.  It says:

    The jobs the migrants did paid an average of $8/hour, without benefits, 
a wage that is so low that the state's probationed prisoners have turned 
it down.

So, there's your answer.

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