While on vacation, I spoke to a woman who owns a fruit farm in a small town. She told me she gets her workers through the federal H-2A program — and what she said was shocking.
She’s required to pay the migrants $18 an hour, provide free housing, and even a car to use. Just last week, she had to take one of them to get a Social Security card. And get this — they’re guaranteed to be paid for at least 40 hours a week, no matter what. When it gets hot, they simply come inside until it cools down. If it rains all week and they can’t work, they still get paid.
So instead of hiring Americans from her own state — or even her own country — our government is recruiting and flying in foreign workers to take these jobs, handing them $18 an hour, free housing, and a car.
She said that last week, each of them made over $1,000.
Americans should be offered these jobs and bussed in just like the migrants are. It’s time to take agricultural jobs back and start putting American workers first.
Democrats and RINOs love to promise jobs — while handing those same jobs to foreign workers and telling Americans we don’t want to do them.
I disagree. $18 an hour, free housing, a car to use, and no bills? That sounds like a job Americans would line up for.