The farm worker shortage is a myth, a fabrication contrived by the "open border" alliance... their distortions enthusiasticly advanced and promoted by the pro-amnesty, liberal media.

Farmers that pay a livable, American wage have no shortage of willing workers. Those that don't or can't still have legal solutions in the form of H1-B visas which allows farmers (and certain other occupations) to hire foreign workers when jobs cannot be filled with American workers or other legal US residents.

Traditionally these are jobs that Americans preformed until forced out by declining wages directly attributable to an over abundance of cheap, illegal labor.

It is also a myth that if they paid a livable wage, lettuce would be $5.00 a head. Labor cost for farmers in the US averages 6% - 8%. If they paid workers $20.00 an hour your lettuce price would increase less than 10 cents a head. Most would gladly pay this for it is far less than the cost of illegal immigration.

While it is true that most people come to the US for a better future, we must limit the number of people who come here annually to a sustainable amount. If we didn't do so, America would soon be no different than the country's people are so desperate to leave. We have immigration laws for a reason, and just because you don't like it or don't agree with the number of peopple we choose to allow to enter, does not mean that the "law is broken".

I would like to know why Mexicans and South Americans feel they are more deserving of US visa's than those people in China or India who have been on waiting list for years. Just because you are close enough to sneek across the border (not swim an ocean) does not mean that you should get special treatment.