Michael Ramirez
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See the entire I&I collection of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Michael Ramirez here.
Too late for the avocados. The Mexican cartels took over that business long ago and NAFTA ensured avos would come from Mexico. Then, California water costs put a nail in the coffin.
Odd choice of fruit, since almost all of our avocados are grown in Mexico.
Not true! We pay the $68 for an avocado in other forms that NO ONE wants to mention. As the GREAT Thomas Sowell says there are only trade-offs.
We pay an enormous amount of taxes for illegals in higher auto insurance rates, medical procedures, education, ESG, disease, culture assimilation, etc. Not to mention the billions that are sent back to their home country. Whereas Americans would spend the money in the US, thus creating more jobs and a stronger economy.
Though the cost of an avocado may go up with legal workers, it will actually show the true cost; which is capitalism.
The point that American’s won’t do those kind of jobs is a misleading. Under a capitalist system, the cost to have the avocados picked would be the market price. Thus it might be $10 per hour or $100 per hour. But the market, based on worker supply and demand, would determine the hourly, weekly or monthly cost.
Libs complain about having a living minimum wage. If the market determines the minimum wage for house keepers, then it is the TRUE cost. Thus they’d be paying what the market rate determines and not undercut Americans by paying less for illegals and having you and I having to foot the cost for education, medical, auto insurance, etc.
Nice talking points, but it’s not true!
Ever seen a dusty bus with ‘legal work permitted’ ag workers going to or from a field? That is no longer a common sight but it would be or will be, as we continue to choke off illegals workers. There is nothing wrong with a legal foreign labor supply as long as they abide by the rules of their permits. It doesn’t matter whether they are picking fruit & vegetables or writing code for high tech. Let me observe this about the great avocado debate, “In the absence of affordable labor, an industry changes itself; sometimes it survives and sometimes it moves somewhere else. Such is the case with domestic avocados whose California growers find it very tough to compete with Mexican fruit – for a number of reasons. Aerial maps of California’s avo growing regions , taken between 1980 and 2025, will show vast areas that used to be green with trees, transformed into a SoCal version of
Scottsdale, AZ. Things change and avos are a great example.
No ne forces anyone to pay a tariff. This is another Ramirez miss. He’s probably just pissed off he can’t find someone to mow his lawn.