ICE expands immigration raids into California's agricultural heartland

Works great for rich af factory farms that can afford to float and maybe pay a lil wages for a while, while all the small and medium competition goes under and has to sell their land.

Even the "immigration crackdown" is about making the rich richer.

Now, here's something I've been pondering about this line of thought.

I believe that everyone should be paid a fair wage for a fair days work. Which means that I really don't like the fact that immigrant laborers get paid pennies compared to what an American laborers would.

But obviously raising pay for immigrants would be effectively the same thing (from a business accounting perspective) as just paying the Americans higher wages, which by your own comment would raise prices.

So I'm curious to see where you stand on this. Because to me there are a few end results and none of them are particularly amazing.

1. Limit any jobs to American citizens or legal immigrants. This transition would be hugely detrimental to the current agriculture industry, and the higher salaries demanded by citizens would increase prices further.
2. Raise immigrant prices to be in line with citizens. This would also raise prices.
3. Continue with the status quo. The current status quo is horribly exploitive and needs to be changed.
4. Lower citizen pay to be in line with immigrants. This would just never fly. You'd never be able to higher a citizen at the same rates they are paying immigrants
5. Force companies to take a lower margin to absorb the higher pay. But this is just a dumb idea for lots of reasons and would never work in the "real world"™

This is a genuine comment too. Like I said, I feel like the best route is to just increase pay for immigrants. But that has the same result on the end consumer.