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Illegals continue to be employed and the coyotes are doing a good business for daylabor.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Immigrants and Nazis, Communists and Cardinals 2010
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Illegals continue to be employed and the coyotes are doing a good business for daylabor.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Immigrants and Nazis, Communists and Cardinals 2010
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Ranchers opined that although some scions had the motivation to help, it quickly waned when the daily income disparity between inexperienced collegiate types visiting the homestead for the summer as compared to the vastly larger earnings by nimble callused experienced ag daylabor had a tendency to discourage both the ranchers' own offspring and the ranchers themselves: why hire someone who will do more damage to the fruit and pick slowly and be unsatisfied at the meager monetary compensation, whereas a skilled migrant laborer could earn five times as much and glean pears more carefully.
Balkinization 2007
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