Historically farmers of recruited workers including indentured servants from Europe, enslaved Indigenous people from the Americas, enslaved Africans, and in the late 19th and early 20th century European immigrants.
All in immigrants and food
Historically farmers of recruited workers including indentured servants from Europe, enslaved Indigenous people from the Americas, enslaved Africans, and in the late 19th and early 20th century European immigrants.
A US immigration policy overhaul must take into consideration the issue of agricultural labor shortage that has been growing in this country. Policymakers need to consider a solution to farmers who hire illegal immigrants and exploit them and second provide a viable solution to the labor demands of farmers growing the produce we eat.
The image above is a reminder to pray for the many hands that help produce the food for the nourishment of our bodies.
This scene of a woman selling plantains could be in nineteenth century West or Central Africa, Brazil or Columbia.
We are in a political environment in which some are demonizing immigrants. It seems shortsighted considering our history as a nation. Some four million Italians immigrated to the Americas between the end of the nineteenth century and the 1920s. Most settled in larger cities across the United States such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
