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.: September 2006 --> Crackdown on illegal immigrants leads to a shortage of farm workers

Crackdown on illegal immigrants leads to a shortage of farm workers

» What do you know? The crackdown on illegal immigration has led to a shortage of produce pickers this year.

The tightening of the border with Mexico, begun more than a decade ago but reinforced since May with the deployment of 6,000 National Guard troops, has forced California growers to acknowledge that most of their workers are illegal Mexican migrants. The U.F.W. estimates that more than 90 percent of the state’s farm workers are illegal.


 [ 09.25.06 ]




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