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bucolic_frolic

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3. It's called migrant labor for a reason and that reason is also why Americans

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2025, 07:33 PM

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won't do it. Migrant labor is migrant. They follow the seasons and the harvests and the crops. Spring and summer in the hot south, fall in the midwest, winter in the southwest or south. Americans burdened with homes and jobs can't move around that much.

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