The owner of the farm in Guánica where 31 Mexicans arrived to work agriculture and save the Puerto Rican crops, said that bringing labor from another country is due to a crisis to get employees on the island .
In an interview with Jugant Pilota Dura, Carlos González said that “recently the need for labor in the agricultural sector has worsened”, but Puerto Rican employees simply do not arrive.
González insisted that the effort has nothing to do with moving the boricuas hands, but that they have not responded to the call for work.
On the other hand, he explained that one of the primary requirements for the visa process for Mexican workers is to show that there is an urgent need.
“We are losing crops (…) there is a problem of absenteeism. Apparently the culture of work has been lost,” he said.
In an interview with Metro, the Consul General of Mexico in Puerto Rico, Juan Manuel Calderón, I indicate that the group is being paid the minimum of $ 7.25 an hour and they work from Monday to Friday, from 6:00 am to 3:00 pm
According to the consul, the group will be working in Puerto Rico until early July.