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nehal3mtoday at 2:47 PM1 replyview on HN

I was a bit tongue in cheek in my response. Yes, you're right that (almost famously) farm work is done by a disproportionate amount of illegals, but conflating those with immigrants as a default does injustice to the hardworking people that followed the rules.


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modo_mariotoday at 4:38 PM

>Yes, you're right that (almost famously) farm work is done by a disproportionate amount of illegals, but conflating those with immigrants as a default does injustice to the hardworking people that followed the rules.

I think that shifts a bit when there's potentially more of the former than the later (or even just anything vaguely close to that). Especially when that's the aspect that's been drawing so much focus in this context.