Source: Philip Martin, THE HILL, 12/25/17


The slowdown in unauthorized Mexico-US migration has set off a race in U.S. fields between rising imports, more machines, and foreign guest workers. Trade policy, including NAFTA re-negotiations and immigration policy, particularly the enforcement of new or revised guest worker programs, will determine the winner. Americans do not dream of growing up to be farm workers. About 70 percent of the hired workers on crop farms were born in Mexico, and 70 percent of these Mexican-born workers are unauthorized.

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