Americans can't or won't do it because we aren't willing to pay them enough, that means they won't do it. So let someone who is willing to accept the pay do it or raise the cost of fruit, that's simple.
I think my idea does address border security, at least so much as our current border is secure. The patrols etc can be continued and perhaps even funded with monies from fees to register for legal entrance. So we continue with border security, but with legal openings...if you come through the legal opening and register that's all well and good, don't and we shoot on sight. This can be clearly posted in English and Spanish in large glowing neon letters "Enter US this way ONLY" and directions
I believe, at least from the immigrants (legal and illegal) that I have known that most would welcome the chance to work their way toward residence and citizenship. The registration and 6 month window allows for seasonal workers to come up, do what they do for the money the can get, and then go home for the next 6 months. Just because you can't prove full employment for the time doesn't mean you can't have a second chance, after all, on some level this is the nation of second chances. A lot of the early immigrants here ended up here because they failed at whatever it was they were trying to do at home, and a lot of them continued to fail and die, but the ones that worked hard (or were lucky) survived and helped build our national character into what it is today
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It's not a matter of "we" won't pay them enough, like the American people themselves are withholding. The corporations running these massive farms don't pay them more because they don't have to because they aren't citizens. They do it to make more money.
That's my point: our border, as it is now, is NOT secure.
Regarding a temporary worker program, see: Germany. The cultural effects are far more devastating than you can imagine. In Germany there is fierce racism against the Turks, they form a sort of under class. Not politically, of course, but culturally and socially. It's just a bad idea. We don't have any sort of labor shortage that would justify it.
We don't have a labor shortage b/c we have so many immigrants picking crops etc, did you see the statement made by the California farmers association?
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