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Won't You Be My Labor?
Immigration crackdown exacerbates organic-farm labor shortage |
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14 Aug 2006 |
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| Won't You Be My Labor? Immigration crackdown exacerbates organic-farm labor shortage Organic farmers are desperately struggling to find workers, caught between rising demand and an ever-more-severe labor shortage. More than half of the 1.8 million farmworkers in the U.S. are here illegally, and increased border patrols have reduced the number of immigrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Service-s ... |
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| Topics: food and agriculture, Mexico, news, United States (all these topics) |
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