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by uuddlrlr 1717 days ago
Almost half of US farm labourers are illegal immigrants;

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-labor

https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/charts/63465/LegalStatus201...

Pretty crazy how they're treated considering that.

Cool job tho, thanks for feeding people!

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Arguably someone working on automating farming systems would be reducing demand for labor in that work.

So really, "isn't this putting impoverished people out of the only job they can get?"