In interviews with the Washington Post, multiple farmers expressed their dismay with the loss of farm workers under Donald Trump's harsh immigration policies and his administration's waffling on subsidies.In a deep dive focusing on one farmer who voted for Trump, 36-year-old J.J. Ficke of Kirk, Colo...
I mean, it’s not so much the fear of deportation so much as the fact that lower wages go farther in Mexico. Most Mexicans who illegally immigrate do so simply because it makes economic sense. If the wages were so low that it didn’t make economic sense to them, then they would simply return to Mexico voluntarily.
You kind of lose that economic advantage when you’re not living in Mexico anymore. Plus a lot of people that come here don’t have a life to go back to and likely sunk everything they had into getting here.
A lot of immigrants accept a low quality of life here so they can provide a better one back in their home country for their family.
Is it still Mexicans that come over or has it changed to people from even poorer countries like Venezuela or Honduras?