Originally Posted by
TaekOne
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15123111/
Tight borders leave farms with fewer workers
Crops lie unpicked as farmers watch labor supply dry up
...The problem is now reaching crisis proportions, food growers say. As much as 30 percent of the year's pear crop was lost in Northern California, growers estimate. More than one-third of Florida's Valencia orange crop went unharvested, Regelbrugge said. In New York, apples are rotting on the trees, because workers who once picked the fruit have fled frequent raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, said Maureen Marshall, an apple grower in Elba.
"crisis proportions"
i think that's just the bullshit media being sensational and hyping up bullshit as usual.
it's not like there was a mass deportation of illegal immigrants recently.