Fertile Ground USA...Celebrating the people behind the plow

In this newly released documentary "American Harvest - The Real Truth About Immigrant America," Angelo Mancuso, director of the film asks what happened to America's old fashioned work ethic. The answer: it's the immigrants, stupid:

Angelo writes:
Let's face it, there are certain jobs that some Americans won't do. And some of them involve hard work.

Whatever happened to a good old-fashioned work ethic?

This is why many Americans complain about the immigration issue, some of them don’t find physical labor or hot and dirty conditions appealing.

Some jobs like agriculture and farming have gone the way of the migrant worker. If you were an employer whom would you rather have working for you? A hard working immigrant or a soft lazy school kid that is being taught to go to college and get an education instead of learning a trade.

The problem is so complex that no single black and white solution will due.

Somewhere we need to find a balance between immigrant labor and encouraging our young people to learn skills and trades with a purpose as if their entire existence depended on it. This is where immigrant outperforms their American born counterparts.

If you have skills and a work ethic then an employer will find you desirable and want to pay you more money than your less-skilled less-industrious counterpart.

In the mean time we need to fix our broken immigration system.

If you understood the backlog for the ineffectual legal immigration process you would understand why moderate voices are calling for immigration reform.

People and businesses want a legal system that works. We need to compromise on immigration reform.

We need to encourage reasonable and rational debate.