Thank you for making this video! I can't believe how migrant workers are treated like less than human beings, we all contribute to society in different ways, and all jobs should be highly valued

This got so many holes in it, I can break it down but y'all should do a part 2. 1. You're missing the migrates of Europeans to Mexico 2. Why they used that "pesticide" 3. How it got into the holocaust 4. Afro-Mexican genocide. 5. Mexi-ameri war.

@@carolinagofsky6006 Agreed.

I watched this video at my sxhool

How about a law that makes all those Lilly-white politicians work in the fields for at least 40 hours befor they

Oh my god, what a small world! CJ, your mother is one of the most remarkable human beings I've ever met. Everyone who's watched the documentary talks about her resilience, her strength of character, her vivacity, her lovely, friendly demeanor. You're so fortunate to have her in your life. :) Thanks for watching - but moreso, thank you for this lovely comment.

She is beautiful! From the inside and out, dios los bendiga.

🙏🙏🙏Marisa. In Canada, we also benefit from the large skilled agriculture contributions that your mom is a key member of.

Thank you for commenting! Your mom was one of my favorite people on this video. She seems so sweet. Please give her our appreciation and love.

Tell your mom thank you for what she does everyday for all of us. If it wasn't for her and people like her we would be very hungry! Thank you!

Agree 100%. Thank you for this comment, sir.

guess what that helps so much. These opportunities u must take from these illegal people. u can save so much money from cheap spanish labor my uncle saves so much money because of illegal people. im grateful for illegal mexicans we need more.

@@randomgodll1073 lol you are trolling.

@Danny DNA You obviously have never been exploited or you would know it has MANY faces.

@Danny DNA If Americans paid Americans fair wages then this would reduce immigrants coming in.

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Meanwhile I can't manage to keep a cactus alive...

true..but farmers must not exploit farm workers

@@ditirojimmysegang3009 farmer don't exploit the workers, most of them depend on demand, the people that control the corporation will exploit the workers because they own the farm, more demand lead to more work, if you the citizen don't have the capability to work on farm by your own dont blame these foreign workers

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When I was 13 I wanted a new console. My parents said if I wanted it that I could go work the fields. That was literally the hardest job I’ve ever had. Not that uncommon for underage workers to be out in the fields. I never made it long enough to save up for the console.

Yeah. Back breaking. Literally. Worse than stacking bins of onions in my opinion.

I got let go after half a day, have never been let go from any other job. it is damn hard work.

@@puckbryn3583 That's because farm work is forced to rely on dinosaur technology (manual labor) and there's a lot of room for more mechanization of farm work. However, the Hispanic and Latino labor unions wont allow mechanization that eliminates their jobs.

@@kansasthunderman1 how are you gonna mechanize picking strawberries and lettuce?

They would waste there time complaining about everything and everyone.

@@luispinedo7337 *their time. But also, if they do complain, then good! Let people see what kind of work ethic they have!

My grandparents worked the fields for ages, and forced all of their children to do it around school for a year to gain perspective. And that tradition continued to the grand kids. I am always amazed when people mock it as unskilled or easy to do. That was the hardest job I’ve ever had by a long shot.

@@nephtys369 that's an excellent tradition! Well done!

Start with Democrats. Most farmers lean right-wing. And the clips they showed are completely out of context it's more than sickening to see how brainwashed you all are that one could not reason with you.

Food is never perfect but needs to meet a standard. You are still going to see beat-up vegetables and fruits in supermarkets and I'll feel cheated if I have to pay for brown bananas or apples.

@@danielwells774 Abused apples is applesauce

@@scapegoatmiller9110 No. I just go to the supermarket, pick out the best-looking fruit and pay cheapy-cheapy for it.

@@PennyMsElite Or apple cider, yummy!

They remove half of the lettuce leaves so it looks "good looking". For me, it doesn't look like a lettuce anymore, but rather endives

Ok

Great role model to follow.

And each vegetable requires a different skillset! I haven't seen it for myself, but apparently even the process of picking radishes is also quite the site to behold!

Exactly what i tell everyone! “ these people deserve to be the highest paid” my respects for these people! I worked harvesting broccoli and only lasted 1.5 days my back was killing me!!! You will only appreciate the work they do if you go try doing it yourself!!

As the descendant of farmworkers, thanks for such a beautiful comment. ❤

I guess you don't realise until you grow your own. I'm so slow at harvesting my garden veg.

@@NectarineSoup not only that, but having to bunch the cilantro by hand and put the romaine lettuce in bags ON THE FIELD! I thought that all of that was done in a processing plant by some machine somewhere. Not by people in fields. It's hard enough to get romaine hearts OUT of the bag. I can't imagine having to put them in bags when you're bent over in the field and under time restraints.

thats not it man. its because the pay is too low.

There's a lot of room for more mechanization of farm work. However, the Hispanic and Latino labor unions wont allow mechanization that eliminates their jobs.

@@kansasthunderman1 what are you talking about. The farm workers union is so small its practically non existent. It has no real strength

@Ron Gosling we could ask you the same thing. Did you know farmers get less then halve of what you pay in the supermarket? This applies to everything; milk, beef, cheese, fruits, veg and cereals! Think about that the next time you stuff your face with something, sir.

@Ron Gosling STEM Majors Vs Humanities Majors So humanities degrees aren’t useless, and actually do teach skills that are relevant for people who want to earn a living (in addition to the argument that studying the human condition increases empathy and makes us better people). How do the outcomes for humanities majors compare to their STEM counterparts? Well, one strike against the humanities is that STEM majors have about a 1% higher rate of employment, although those with a humanities degree still had a higher rate of employment that the general public. A second is that the median earnings for a college graduate with a STEM degree is about 36% higher than that of a college graduate with a humanities degree. It’s not all bad news for humanities majors - studies have found that, as their careers progress, those with humanities degrees actually close the gap and earn more on overage than STEM majors later in the careers, due in part to the fact that they are more likely to pursue graduate degrees and end up in roles with a leadership track and room for advancement. Those with a liberal arts degree are also more likely to be engaged at work, according to a Gallup-Purdue survey. Liking your job certainly has a value which isn’t reflected in average salary or unemployment rates

There's a lot of room for more mechanization of farm work. However, the Hispanic and Latino labor unions wont allow mechanization that eliminates their jobs.

It's cause of these illegals that we get to eat good for cheap. I mean people need to check reality before bashing illiagals or making all legal quickly. Right now the inflation is partially cause we are so stupid not allowing immigrants to come in, especially for low wage jobs.

At the grocery store , very little of the money goes back to the farmer him/her...self ! most that cash goes to the food processors and marketers !

Thanks for watching, Mark!

(And thanks for leaving a comment!)

@@YaraElmjouie why do you have to edit this so deceptively?

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It does

Seriously - not anyone can do this work.

@@YaraElmjouie Exactly.

@Rasputen Borg I worked with immigrants in vinyards for two years. My hands bled! the Immigrants were very kind and helpful while I was learning.

@Rasputen Borg F you man. If white people have trouble keeping farm jobs it's because we're soft! Not all IMMIGRANTS can do this job either. But why would they hire Americans? If they did they would be required to give us breaks and pay us overtime and stuff like that. You better check yourself!

They will teach you how to be a decent human being, not the selfish bastards you are.

That's how most essential jobs are, especially if the workers are predominantly non-white.

Farm? More like food factory.

Well said! They are trying protect the job status. Fact the jobs that are said to be low skilled we depend on the most, more than doctors, lawyers etc...

You’re stupid. When they say skilled they mean you were trained by some institution. Learning how to do your job doesn’t count as skilled.

Wrong it is always the uneducated that judge. It is ALWAY right wingers that say burger flippers, servers, and gardeners are low skilled. The educated realize the history, the job needs to be done, and workers deserve dignity with minimum wages, protections, and etc.

@@ennieminee4470 learning how to do your job doesn't count as skilled...what do people who are going to college for medical and other jobs doing

@@MikasaAckermann831 right, let me clarify. When they say skilled, semi-skilled, or low skilled they are referring the the amount of training someone has obtained from a formal institution of sorts. This could be a university, technical school, or a particular academic program. It doesn’t mean they’re dumb or don’t have a hard job. They may know how to harvest efficiently but that probably took a few weeks of on the job training vs enrolling in a 18 month course or 4 year agricultural university program. Digging a ditch is very difficult but I don’t need to go to school to get good at it. I know you’ll say oh American couldn’t do it but you’re just stereotyping or youre seriously implying some genetic difference (you wouldn’t be doing that would you?). Barring some type of physical condition any person could do that type of job vs not everyone being able to treat someone with cancer, teach a math class or weld. Y’all are the ones misunderstanding the term

Oh wow! That's incredible! Thanks for sharing this!

@@YaraElmjouie And thank you for sharing this very important part of our country as well as history. Many of these historical roots (no pun intended lol) /stories get left behind in our curriculum or over shadowed. Therefore, it’s highly important to share our stories to others; hopefully it helps build understanding and compassion for one another. I just feel so blessed and grateful for the opportunities I have here, and all big thanks to my great grandfather and grandfather. They truly aspired for the American dream to give us, the future generation a better life. Again, thank you for sharing this with everyone the importance of sacrifice and selflessness one does for their families and themselves.

@L8 PRODUCTIONS 14:40 You were allowed to live and work in the US in exchange for working the fields. That's how my great grandfather came to migrate here and later became a permanent resident. This bringing their families here to work as well.

Same here. My father was a Bracero and was always vocal about the unpaid compensation that has been owed to them for decades

@Val Paz same, both my grandfathers were part of the braceros. I only recently learned about their experiences, I wish I had learned about it sooner.

@Magic True these should all be raised beds. The owner of the farm still lives in 1955 where pesticides are still a thing, while in reality it's destroying the top soil which has been built over thousands of years.

@@user-pt3bv3jl3v maybe labor is still be preferred. the laborer might be invisibly urged or demanded to long hours and overtime. (my guessing, I imagine it) I hope that maybe more people should know them and their profession, achievement and meaning. maybe more scholar should do In-depth research and study about their profession industry. meanwhile, I also hope that they have rest and not be too exhausted , when some of the workers might need rest.

All work has value. You came to devalue these people again Congrats , you're a bigot. When my family came to this country we all worked in the fields. These are great people, unlike the Ruling Elite who are killing us. They are murdering the poor, but you're angry at the powerless ? Keep swallowing the lies of our millionaire and billionaires.

Ok....cool story bro.

Im glad you had that opportunity. These people do not have a choice between working in the fields or not.

People don’t realized the opportunity that we have here and for y’all bashing him Because he decided to go to school and make a career are looking at it wrong unfortunately they don’t have the same opportunity we have but they want there kids to grow up and go to college like him so I’m sure they would be happy to see someone work the field and use the opportunity to go to school and improve his life

@@allenflores5110 you’re missing the point about unfair labor compensation.

Feel free to share with whoever you please!

You can post it on Facebook 😊

Some of us understand sadly not enough.

And this video barely scratches the surface of how much they work

These people are not farmers, they’re pickers. The farmers are getting rich exploiting the pickers.

The farmers are rewarded, -not so much these farmWORKERS...

The problem is that no one is willing to pay more for those same salad. If US farmers would raise their workers' salary, then the price of food would increase.

@@PG-3462 just see mexico they give 7 dollars a day while usa 7 dollars an hour

@@divyaprakash5189 This is because of the technologies and more advanced supply chains of the USA, which allows American farmers to give higher wages than Mexican farmers, but still an American farmer can't give harversters the salary of an aerospace engineer... Think about it this way. If the minimum wage increases by only $1 per hour, if the farmer has 50 workers it increases cost per day by $400, meaning $2,000 a week, or $52,000 for 6 months. Most farmers don't even earn a salary $52,000 after paying for all their farm expenses, mortages and taxes , so how could a farmer pay for this increase by only $1 of minimum wage? Farmers would definitively need to increase the price of the food they sell

@@PG-3462 sir plz dont be angry but i hate illegal mexicans and central Americans

When they say skill they mean you were trained at a institution or something similar...skilled doesn’t mean you learn how to do something at your job. When they say skill their talking about some type of standardization...I’m pretty sure they don’t have a picking exam they have to pass before they can work.

@UCemOy89IWkxqRf5XInY1N-A I did. I think you are to dense to understand what skill means. A janitor needs to know how to do a ton of shit but it’s all on site training or experience. Same with these guys. Obviously they’ll learn to to work faster and more efficient but they’re still low skilled. It’s not a insult because skill means a specific thing. You’re dumb Stephanie!

@@ennieminee4470 I would expect nothing less from some who has a name based on a racist nursery rhyme...

@@Brokenstarz55 that’s all you got Stephanie??? We were talking about how you don’t understand the use of the word “low-skilled”

@@ennieminee4470 most office workers I've been around are far lower skill than these workers-regardless of whether or not they have degrees. 50% of the office work force is making money as parasites and wasting half their days swiping right on Tinder. I work in a high paid professional field and I see it all around me. Not to mention, most people have to learn what they're doing "on the job." It's all BS. And if what you were saying was true, one of these highly skilled laborers who can do the job 3x-5x faster than someone new, should be commanding a far higher salary because of their experience and skill.

@@sampeacock3819 she means that farmers are salty.

@@haze6647 Hahaha

Wth?

@@sampeacock3819 it's a phrase that was used in the Bible. It means honest, simple, humble, and all around really good. Salt was super important in ancient times for preserving food and some people would be paid for their labor with salt. Tl/dr; they're basically saying that these farmers are good for the earth.

Capitalism sucks

@@lsbzkr based

Billionaires usually don't own farms and farming isn't profitable usually.

@@HH-le1vi farming is what keeps us alive. Wild that it wouldn't be profitable

@@ThomasBomb45 it's not profitable because actually growing the food is expensive as is the equipment that you have to get for it. So farmers end up in huge debt which then has to be paid from harvest and they end up with pennies on the dollar.

I used to live in Yellville, Arkansas which is an agricultural town. It's pretty easy work for teenagers and young men who don;t want to move to the city.

I totally agree with that.

How is driving a tractor hard work? Did it have pedals instead of an engine.

@@kansasthunderman1 try it when you are in middle and high school and in the dead of summer in the South. Smart one.

Where do u live now sir i have a important question plz help

I now live in Donna Tx

@@pablomontes6251 sir sorry but my cousin has a phd degree and not accepted for H1B visa but biden says illegal farmworkers will get free citizenship i am very frustrated sir

100 times more that biden& Harris families combined

@@rigotub what?

@@aerialcombat you don't know about them? wow.

@@almostheavenhomestead1680 what?

BCS is suave and possibly italian i like blue better ;)

Yes, it is skilled!

Yes I picked berrys when I was a kid, you have to pick fast to make money and the migrants are realy fast. They were also realy friendly and would share their food with us. I wonder how bad it must have been in the country they came from for them to come all the way up to Washington. PB & J for everyone 😃

I was 11 or 12 yrs old my first day working on sugar beet. I got home with a fever and gums swollen, I couldn't eat anything for days.

I did when I was a teenager in Ontario, Canada. I picked garlic, tomatoes, flowers, ginseng, apples, and tobacco leaves. I worked with temporary foreign workers and they were the most peaceful and hardworking people.

When I was in high school I thought going to work every morning was easier than school. My grandfather took me to pick strawberries and lasted one day lmao I was like Ezale from Friday “ my neck my back” Respect to all the people working in the fields

I have work in vineyards picked onions watermelon packing pistachios cold storage various leafy greens and picked pomagranates I miss it mostly because you get to work with competent workers and it felt right.

Wow, Adriana, you've done a lot. I'm proud of you.

A skilled worker can fill 20 boxes an hour.

A skilled worker can also steal berries from his coworkers' lanes

I was able to attend his funeral with a dear friend. Cesar Chavez ❤❤❤

Your fantasies of murdering me wouldn't turn out all that well for you. City people far outnumber "country" people. If you try to starve us to death, we'll come for you and take what we need to live. I haven't forgotten when you all wanted to block off New York & California and kill us all last year when Coronavirus hit. Don't forget that without cities and technology, you would all be living in shacks & starving to death when the harvest failed. No electricity. No computers. No television. No penicillin.

Your DISGUSTING TO THE ROTTEN ROOT! SERIOUSLY DISPICABLE ! But karma always comes when at least expected.🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄😌

@@robinlillian9471 People in cities are business workers who provide financial and other services which are essential to the U.S. economy. They aren't lazy, they just get an income from working smarter, not harder.

The good thing is you're open to learning about it and recognizing that they are underpaid. You deserve a living wage and so do these farmers. No one should have to struggle to make ends meet friend☺

And what exactly is your point?

You're too kind! I'm happy the video had an impact on you, Mosi. :)

Yes! Industrial agriculture that exploits migrant workers like this is an unsustainable system in the long term however, and we are ultimately asking for serious trouble if we don't change it. More labor means even lower wages. But wages have risen in recent years as the worker shortage has increased but are often still much too low. But people complain about food inflation. The decline of small family farms is ultimately destructive but now sure enough there is now more and more mechinazation even in produce crop agriculture. Also crop workers are actually mainly Mexican and not so much other Central American. So with significantly fewer new Mexican immigrants even with many more central Americans and more migrants overall, that still contributes to the shortage of farmworkers.

I also wouldn't say the government demonized these workers directly for the most part, though certain talking heads and politicians might at times. But what they are is CALOUS towards them! What ive seen is they actually mostly demonize those who support the workers the most, rather then the workers themselves, all the while the workers Continue to be mistreated and/or ignored. People are also rightfully jaded hearing about worker shortages and more immigration as a solution, given that has been said so much when it just wasn't true, for all sorts of other industries, in order to lower wages and displace existing workers with those seen as more desirable. The situation with produce crop agricultural is truly different then anything else in terms of dependence on migrant labor, but only in that what is gradually happening in construction and other industries in large parts of the country, already happened decades ago with the majority of agricultural work. Mechanized agricultural and livestock work on the other hand is like construction, in still having vast numbers of US born workers in all occupations while also being highly immigrant dependent. Nothing wrong with immigrants, but we also really need to preserve and invest in a US born labor force in these occupations or we will court disaster in the long run. That didn't happen with field labor and now we have a real long term problem as a result that will be very dificult if even posible to change.

Make Grillo great again!

He is american...

You're too kind!! :)

Glad that came across! Thank you for watching!

cuz normal people don't need people to speak for them, we already know

Indeed! The breakfast burrito was fantastic!

What happened in japan?

plus i loved marissas hijab made from a bandana

Wow. Where did you learn that?

@@alx123094 fact checks. I did a research about undocumented immigrants for one of my classes

Thank you for this info. I grew up boycotting in solidarity with farmer workers. Justice for all ❤