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And it really shouldn't be an issue.

The problem is, of course, greed.

Companies, multi-national corporations, are hiring people at less than minimum wage to work our fields, thusly increasing their profit margins. They can do this because the southern workers (not all from Mexico) are getting the best deals of their lives. Not quite enough to live on, but infinitely better than to succumbing to hunger.

This should be stopped... and that will cure the problem.

But no, enforcing the statutory minimum wage? That would be horrible for the corporations... and they have strong lobbyists.

So... let's not screw up the corporations' profits... let's spend a lot of taxpayer money with a different approach. Let's put a fucking wall up.

The problem could also be cured pretty well, at least temporarily, but helping to make the economies in their countries better.

If, for instance, we could strengthen the Mexican economy so that Mexicans don't want to come here and work for less than minimum wage, they would stay home and work.

Eventually, of course, as the Mexican/South American economies strengthened, our local corporations would start exporting people who *would* work for less than the statutory minimum wage.

So pretty soon, we would have a Chinese problem, for example, and not a Mexican one.

The root of the problem, as I mentioned, is greed.

So what can we do right now?

Well, that would be... pay a dollar a head for lettuce, or whatever it takes to give the corporation a decent (decent? define, heh) take the hit and pay the true price of the produce.

Anything else is quite simply not gonna work.

But having slaves is not the American way... not for the last 150 years, anyway.

I've got a lot of other things to say, of course, but I'll just let them lie.