Note that in the piece it mentions the blueberry crop that has had people flocking to pick for years... Note also how the piece fails to mention the fact that most children choose to work in the fields, and that, especially in the cases of migrant workers, their options back home are relatively WORSE, which is why they take the opportunity to work for farmers in the US. Some might say that the US farmers are "exploiting" the migrant workers, but that is a fallacy. In most cases, the profit margins for the farmers is very slim, because the PRODUCTS don't fetch beyond a certain level of remuneration from the consumer. The consumer is unwilling to pay beyond a certain level of price, and will choose another option once that threshold is reached.

By employing the kids who (on the whole) flock to the work and WANT to do the jobs (just like immigrants who are adults), these competing farmers determine a wage level that will allow them to stay in business, turn a small profit, provide the work to the kids, and offer savings to the consumer that the consumer demands.

Here is the story of how the Obama Administration and bureaucrats in DC plan to change that, based on their own desires, and, of course, none of them have ever been in these fields of endeavors... Pun intended.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37793254/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times

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