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Tom Vilsack, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, told a farm group today that crops will rot in the fields if nothing is done to reform immigration. Here’s a bit of what he said: “Everybody in this country knows that this immigration system is broken, everybody in this country,” Vilsack says, “every member of Congress, all...
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Kansas is the home state of Khris Kobach, the author of anti-immigrant laws in Alabama, Arizona, and South Carolina. Kobach is Kansas Secretary of State and he has made every effort to make the state a bad place for immigrants to live in, but now members of his own party have discovered that he...
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Georgia’s anti-immigrant law is on hold because of a court injunction, but it is still impacting the state’s farms. The agriculture sector is expecting a severe labor shortage as migrant workers take Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina off their itinerary. In response, farmers are reducing the acres planted this year. USA Today reports that...
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Arizona’s SB-1070, which has not gone into effect, is having its intended effect of destroying the state’s farm sector according to the Phoenix New Times. Farmers there are seeing a sharp drop in the number of farmworkers in the state. As a result, more than 17,000 aces of land have been taken out of...
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Over the last six years the Republicans have made employers one of the whipping boys of the immigration debate. In proposal after proposal, at the state and federal level, new anti-immigrant bills have targeted employers with heavy fines and criminal penalties for hiring undocumented workers and burdensome paperwork requirements mandate employment authorization verification. Since...
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The Wall Street Journal reports on the growing resistance by farmers to anti-immigrant laws around the country: Arizona-style immigration bills are under attack in several states, with some of the strongest opposition to the proposals coming from agricultural interests like the cotton and peach farmers here in central Georgia. Farmers in states from Florida...
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Georgia farms under attack by tea party legislators.
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The family farm, an American icon, is the green source of our country’s food supply because of the work of undocumented immigrants. More than half of all farm labor is supplied by workers in the U.S. in violation of our immigration laws. The new round of anti-immigrant bills introduced in half a dozen states...
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