Writing in 1984 (“Subsidizing Egos”), Thomas Sowell observed how “thousands of poorly educated Mexicans cross the border every week and go right to work.” Sowell went on to ask how “people new to the country and its language constantly keep finding jobs that elude native-born Americans.”
In a subsequent column (“Work and Output,” September 7, 1984) from his collection of them in his book Compasssion Versus Guilt, Sowell added that “When I travel through California’s vast agricultural areas, the people I see working in the fields under the hot sun are usually Mexicans. So are many of the people who clean the hotels. But when I have been approached by a panhandler in San Francisco or Los Angeles, it has never been a Mexican.” Well, exactly.
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