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Read the Grapes of Wrath. Production has exceeded demand for decades; "market prices" are artificially determined by destroying the abundant harvests to keep prices up, i.e. not allowing the population to reap actual abundance and ultra cheap food. Efficiency has exploded further since Steinbeck's day from technology alone. Supply and Demand doesn't exist when scarcity isn't real. You could kill half the farmers in American and turn their land to parking lots, and it wouldn't matter because this destroying half the crops to create current prices artificially is what they've been doing for decades. Boomers and agribusinesses simply don't want to give up their ultra high profits.

Furthermore, the claim that we need immigration to run farms is literally racist. You're saying that a special group of exclusively nonwhite people shouldn't be afforded the protections of minimum wage laws. Whatever happened to the "fight for 15?" This also neatly debunks the absurd claim that those against illegal immigration (or even legalized immigration or migrant labor programs) are racists. If we were, our position would be that of the boomers (the status quo), or even demanding that a de jure racial underclass be created. To the contrary, we want our own to do these jobs, with the high pay that the dignity of any 1st world citizen demands, and which leftists, astonishingly, demand be paid in every job and industry except agriculture.