Anti-illegal immigration bill stokes backlash in Alabama fields

Anti-illegal immigration bill stokes backlash in Alabama fields
- October 24, 2011
- Leo Chavez, anthropology professor, is quoted in the Christian Science Monitor and Alaska Dispatch October 22, 2011
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From the Christian Science Monitor:
Farmers fearing a labor shortage are protesting recent immigration laws they say are
too harsh, forcing undocumented workers to flee to prevent deportation. They say US
workers are unwilling to endure the rigorous conditions of farm work and that state
legislators need to come up with solutions to prevent local agribusiness from going
under...Farmers are routinely the first to criticize immigration-reform efforts that
target illegal workers, says Leo Chavez, a labor and immigration expert at the University
of California, Irvine. “If you get tough on undocumented immigrants, they lose their
main labor force,” Mr. Chavez says.
For the full story, please visit http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/1022/Anti-illegal-immigration....
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