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... are, in practical terms, underpopulated. Especially for seasonal work, there aren't enough people. Nor will those available work cheaply enough or live with the health implications of being around high concentrations of pesticides and insecticides.
Most politicians in the west know that immigration, especially seasonal immigration, keeps costs low for employers and also depresses the overall wage scale in unskilled and semi-skilled work groups.
The freeper constituency is small, so I don't think they have a tremendous effect--they're opposed to immigration for racial and ethnic reasons, and to a lesser degree, complain that "immigrants are stealing our jobs" which is mostly a crock of shit--most unskilled immigrants are taking jobs freepers would never do. And, I would guess, few of them understand that the pro-business fundamentals of the Republicans include cheap labor as a perceived right. Immigration of all sorts is a way to accomplish that end.
It's a bit different matter when H-1B visas are used to depress the wage scale at the top end, but the same pro-business leanings cause politicians to support H-1Bs for skilled workers, too. There's growing evidence that businesses did import skilled workers to break the wage scale among programmers and system analysts, and to prepare the way for outsourcing jobs, and, as well, manufactured numbers to suggest that there was a severe shortage of IT workers in the US, hence the need for increased temporary immigration.
What the freepers don't get is that the Republicans are only about money, big money, and always have been. They exist to influence government to help them make money. Immigration has always been one of the ways for them to make more money. In that sense, these Southwestern Republicans are hardly RINOs--they are, in fact, classic Republicans.
Cheers.
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