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So the state of Colorado has very strict immigration laws. Therefore immigrants have fled the state resulting in a lack of labor in the agricultural industry. Farmers have no one left to pick their crops. They say undocumented immigrants take away jobs, well, where are all those people whose jobs these immigrants were taking away? Where are all the people who were put out of work because of these criminals? Adonde esta la gente que no han podido trabajar por culpa de los inmigrantes? Well I guess while we look for those people, Colorado has decided to use prison labor. Prisoners would come out and work the fields and the farmers would pay the prisons. And the farmers will be paying more than they were paying before for this inmate labor, while the inmates themselves will be making up to 60 cents a day and the prison pockets the rest.

So let’s see what this means. The United States Department of Agriculture tells us that Colorado had a state total of $4.5 billion in agricultural sales in the year 2002; along with 13.2% of the population being employed in “farm and farm-related jobs”. So what’s going to happen is that the Colorado agricultural industry is going to suffer because of higher prices and less money in their economy.

Higher Prices = Lower Sales

Colorado farmers have to pay more for inmate labor then for immigrant labor. This cost will undoubtedly be passed on to the consumer, since the agricultural industry doesn’t have very high margins and can’t take the hit. So now Colorado produce is going to be more expensive. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have enough money to go around buying expensive produce. So as their sales go down, that $4.5 billion they made is going to be less. Sucks for the farmers.

Labor cost in Prison pockets

So these “criminals” who used to pick Colorado’s crops also spent some of the money they made right there in good old Colorado. They get a burger at McDonald’s, buy some groceries, go the bars, watch moves at the theater and maybe even pay for an apartment. Inmates aren’t going to be doing any of that. With immigrants, farmers would give them money, the immigrants would give the bars money, the bartenders would give McDonald’s money, McDonald’s would give Colorado farmers money and everyone could make a little money. With this inmate labor idea, farmers give prisons money and that’s where it ends. So now Colorado has less money in their economy to go around. Sucks for everyone.

Terrible Idea

Maybe it’s just me but I really think this is a bad idea. If we can just put discrimination and all that aside for a second, cheap labor is good for business. And when this cheap labor gets more expensive, that cost is going to be passed on to all of us. So what do we do? I don’t know, but increased prices are terrible, and the fact that that increased price is going into the pockets of prisons, of our government, that makes it even worse.

Originally read at VivirLatino. Image used under CC license.