Reality Bytes, I don't have links available at the moment, but have read reports that quote growers here in California complain that jobs in the fields go begging even when above minimum wages are being paid and that only by expanding the migrant worker program to include more who arrive without permission can the crops get picked.

Obviously I don't know that from personal experience and they could be blowing smoke, but that is what they claim. Yes, I am sure there is some wage that would draw workers from other employment, but that is when they claim produce would no longer be available at the prices Americans are accustomed to.

That is the "economic necessity" argument I refer to.

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