VivirLatino

With all the talk about illegal immigration these days, here’s a perspective you don’t hear a lot:

In total, California farmers worked the harvest season with 100,000 fewer workers than they needed, according to the ag trade group Western Growers.

Tom Nassif, president of that trade group, is spearheading a public lobbying campaign that proclaims what for years was too taboo to say out loud: the agriculture industry relies on undocumented laborers. And Nassif—whose organization represents the growers who supply half of the nation’s fresh produce—says the problem his members face isn’t too many illegal immigrant workers, but too few.

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