Seeking understanding in South Texas

Pamela Riemenschneider of The Packer passes along this link to a report from south Texas about immigration and a south Texas onion grower. Reading the follow-on comments to this piece illustrate the unbridled passion and the heartfelt if sometimes uneducated viewpoints some hold on this issue.

The straightforward video segment was greeted with posters who doubted that Americans wouldn't do the work( I'm from West Virginia and we need jobs) and those who criticized the grower for planting onions and not working in the fields.

Here is one example:

John writes:

Okay, okay ... poor farmer! Don't say that with your mouth full. The reporter should have asked two very pointed questions.
1. Why wasn't the "farmer" in the pressed and starched white shirt not picking onions?
2. How much "farm subsidy" from the federal government did he receive last year?


TK: The hostility toward U.S. growers who need agricultural labor is remarkable. Consumers should try to understand that the bountiful harvest of U.S. growers is really a bountiful harvest for them.