I would hate to think that my cheap food was coming at the expense of people being totured in hell holes in my country.
When my family came to California to pick fruit during the Great Depression then they were grateful for the work and to be able to earn money to survive. They were happy to be able to pick fruit. ( Watch the movie "The Grapes of Wrath" about the Great Depression in California. )
Now the farm workers have the United Farm Workers Union, and the workers in Napa, etc, are living like kings, if you can live in Napa and work on a vineyard then you will be treated great. And also the workers for Sunkist live great lives. All of our wine is produced by UNION workers. Our farm workers in California have the UFW and the farm workers are treated like part of the community.
I picked strawberries with my family as a child, and we had fun, we had music playing and we all got out and picked strawberries, back then they let the whole families work in the fields in Oregon. It is not bad to get out there and pick fruit. These people who are coming from other countries are grateful to come to California and live in a garden like Merced, and Napa, and make wine and make cheese, etc. California is beautiful and our farm workers are in the United Farm Workers union and they are paid fair and they are treated well.
And we need for the farm workers to have libraries, and schools for the children, and also schools to teach the adults how to speak English, etc.
And now we are going to have people from Ukraine and Russia here picking grapes with the Mexicans, etc.
We also need people to do construction work to build housing, and we have Habitat For Humanity, etc. We need to build nice housing, with swimming pools and tennis courts, we can build nice places. And people can work growing food and making cheese, and making mustard, etc.
Also, San Francisco needs pork, they are having a pork shortage. Farmers can raise food to help to feed San Francisco, etc. And people can raise cattle in Nevada, etc. The refugees can run the butcher shops. People would love to be able to get cheaper hamburger.
Salute,
Tony V.