Source: Steven A. Camarota, CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES, 8/21/15

Raising wages to attract more Americans (native-born and legal immigrants) and mechanizing planting and harvesting is a far better solution than bringing in more workers because there is a very high cost to cheap farm labor. The tables below show that 67 percent of households headed by immigrant farm workers receive some form of welfare — almost triple the rate for the typical native-headed household.

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