to claim immigrants, take "American" jobs. (Americans don't want these jobs)
user
He is thanking the Mexican immigrants for their work while in the same breath revealing that he isn't paying nearly enough for any American citizen to consider doing the work. Not only are these migrant workers being underpaid, but they are being insanely overworked and they basically have no proper means of fighting for better pay/working conditions out of fear of being deported. This man means well, but truly fails to see the mass amount of exploitation he is responsible for.
assistant
Most Americans aren't going to work this kind of job. Period. Which is why I find it odd that capitalists would push this anti-immigrant hysteria, since so much of the shell game of capitalism depends on pushing "undesirable" forms of labor onto the backs of the people least able to turn it down.
user
No I think a significant amount of Americans would work this job if they paid a good wage and the working conditions were better. But in order to do that, they'd not only need to pay much better wages, but also benefits. As well as hiring more people to reduce the amount of labour per person. And also providing better tools and accomodations to the workers. All of that would necessarily result in an increase in food prices unless we were to heavily subsidize the agriculture industry even more and/or change the mode of production. So yes Americans would not do this job as it stands under the current Neoliberal economy that we live under, but if we make some significant changes they probably would.
assistant