Big Business greed does seek the cheapest labor possible, and migrants can be an expedient means to this goal. Still, for decades I’ve noticed how the general work ethic practiced by new immigrants and migrants is exceptional, particularly in the produce harvesting sector.
It is back-breaking work that almost all second and third (etcetera) generation Westerners won’t tolerate for themselves, myself included. I can truly imagine such laborers being fifty to a hundred percent more productive than their born-and-reared-here counterparts.
I’m not implying that a strong work ethic is a trait racially genetically inherited by one generation from a preceding generation, etcetera. Rather, it’s an admirable culturally determined factor, though also in large part motivated by the said culture’s internal and surrounding economic and political conditions.
However, I believe that once they’ve resided here for a number of decades, their strong work ethics and higher-than-average productivity, unfortunately, gradually diminishes as these motivated laborers’ descendant generations’ young people become accustomed to the relatively more slackened Western way of life.
One can already witness this effect in such youth getting caught up in much of our overall urban/suburban liberal culture — e.g. attire, lingo, nightlife, as well as work. And Western ‘values’ assimilation often means the unfortunate acquisition of a distasteful yet strong sense of entitlement.