Leadership Quote by Gary Miller

“Most reasonable people” is doing the heavy lifting here: it’s an appeal to consensus that quietly pre-labels dissent as irrational. Gary Miller isn’t making a moral case for immigrant labor so much as a managerial one, narrowing the debate to what sounds “reasonable” for industries framed as uniquely dependent on a mobile, low-wage workforce. The phrasing turns a charged political question into a matter of common-sense logistics, the kind of rhetorical move politicians use when they want policy to feel inevitable rather than contested.

The intent is to carve out a safe, sector-specific lane for immigration policy: not “immigration” in the abstract, but “guest workers” where the labor is most visible, hardest to automate, and most politically sympathetic in business terms. By naming farming, then adding “gardening and landscape,” he’s expanding the category from essential food production to the broader service economy without saying so explicitly. It’s a small rhetorical step that signals a bigger policy footprint.

The subtext is transactional. “Guest worker” implies temporariness, usefulness, and controlled presence: people are welcome as labor but not necessarily as neighbors. It reassures employers about stability and voters about limits, sidestepping questions of rights, wages, and long-term belonging.

Contextually, this is the familiar U.S. compromise posture: acknowledge economic dependence on immigrant labor while avoiding the messier implications of legalization or broader reform. “Reasonable” becomes a pressure valve, letting the system keep running while the deeper argument about who gets to stay remains politely offstage.