The Corner

Jobs Americans Won’t Do?

Maybe. But picking berries is a job that American machines will do:

I don’t have any stake in this company and have no idea if the product is even any good. But the purpose of such innovations, in the words of the manufacturer, is “to drastically reduce the amount of manual labor required to pick fruit such as Blueberries, Raspberries and other soft fruits.” And that goal is undermined when the government gives farmers mass access to low-skilled foreign labor — whether by winking at illegal immigration or by establishing “temporary” legal worker programs.

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