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There have been a great deal of debate about illegal immigration recently. Local law enforcement was authorized to enforce federal immigration laws that lead to crackdowns on employers who hired illegal immigrants. It left the illegals in a paranoid frenzy and businesses and farmers without the work force that they have been relying on for decades. Some of them decided to stop doing business all together. Right now, I am not going to debate the pros and cons of legislation dealing with illegal immigration. I am going to be sharing some of the things I have learned about Mexican migrant workers in recent weeks with you, and all the things that we could learn from them that could benefit America as a whole.

I friend if mine is a farmer. In the fall he sells pumpkins for Halloween decoration and builds a corn and straw maze for the kids to play in. While he grows his own pumpkins on his land, the great state of Colorado is not the best place to do this. He buys most of what he sells form Mid-Western states. As I understand it, the pumpkins are shipped to a wholesaler to centralized locations, then distributed to places like supermarkets and farm stands like my friend’s. The wholesalers use migrant workers from Mexico to load and unload the produce.

I have had the privilege to work with these illegal immigrants as I helped out my friend from time to time. A couple of trucks filled with pumpkins would arrive and they would have to be unloaded. Now, I am a hard working man myself which includes hard, manual labor if it is necessary. I am an immigrant myself (a legal one at that), and ever since I arrived in the United States, my work ethics provided me with a competitive edge in the work place. I am not saying that natural born Americans are lazy. Far from it. But the truth is that immigrants, when exposed to the land of opportunity that America is, can run major circles around the natural born population when it comes to doing good work for long periods of time. As it turned out, though, I didn’t even come close to the speed and efficiency of those Mexicans who handled those pumpkins. They worked with lighting speeds and great efficiency. I couldn’t believe my eyes, especially knowing that they have done several of those truck loads already that day. I managed to keep up with them, but it was a real strain for me.

Now I understand why farmers and businesses in general like to hire these people. Obviously, it is a lot cheaper to hire these guys, but on top of everything they go well above and beyond of what we expect out of the work force in this country. Businesses would be crazy not to hire these guys. It just makes good fiscal sense. As for the rest of us living and working in the U.S., I believe we have a lot to learn from these illegal immigrants in terms of work ethics.