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mac in japan finds it “Odd how the fruit always got picked, and the toilets cleaned before 1965, when only Americans were around to do it.”

Think what you will about Mexican immigrants and the work that they do; but this is pure bunk. American agribusiness has always been dependent on immigrant labor; from 1942-1964 that dependency was supplied, in the hundreds of thousands every year, under the bracero program. Braceros lived and worked in the United States for the term of their contract, then returned to their homes in Mexico when the contract expired at the end of the season.

To make accurate economic judgments, you have to start with an accurate accounting of the facts.