U.S. chamber: Farmers need illegal immigrants in workforce

[TexasTowelie]

Arizona needs its 920,000 foreign-born residents, both legal and otherwise, to fuel the state’s economy, according to a new study and some business leaders.

The report Monday by the New American Economy says those families had $21.4 billion in household income in 2014, the most recent figures available. They paid $1.7 billion in state and local taxes and have $16 billion in spending power.

When just the undocumented are counted, their earnings were $3.5 billion and $3.1 billion in spending power.

And the number of foreign-born immigrants living in Arizona grew faster between 2010 and 2014 than the overall rate of growth, both from births and people moving here from other states.

Read more: http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2017/07/31/u-s-chamber-farmers-need-illegal-immigrants-in-workforce/

[Freethinker65]

1. Thought they voted for the beautiful wall?

[Warpy]

2. While wages are so low, they doAmer

Domestic labor is willing to do anything provided they can live on the wages.

[flibbitygiblets]

3. That's just Arizona. Imagine what CA needs, and how much of the country they feed.

And how much cheaper our fruits & veggies are because of our shitty immigration labor policies. And what a food crisis we'll probably have if all the "illegals" were to be deported.