Thread: Ag commissioner: Ga. farmers need migrant labor

Ag commissioner: Ga. farmers need migrant labor

valdostadailytimes.com
Staff Writer
Associated Press
October 5, 2011

ATLANTA — A farm labor shortage that left crops rotting in the fields after Georgia passed a law cracking down on illegal immigration shows the need for a retooled or expanded guest worker program for migrant laborers, Georgia’s agriculture commissioner told a panel of Washington lawmakers Tuesday.

Commissioner Gary Black testified at a Senate subcommittee hearing on immigration enforcement and farm labor that an informal survey showed farmers of onions, watermelons and other handpicked crops lacked more than 11,000 workers during their spring and summer harvest. Farmers say that’s because the Georgia immigration law scared off many migrant workers.

Financial incentives aimed at getting unemployed Georgians and even criminals on probation to take their place picking crops were marginally successful, Black said, because the new workers were too slow and often quit because of the strenuous labor involved.

“A robust agricultural guest worker program, properly designed, will not displace American workers,â€

Migrant labor is fine..just make sure they all have work visas. Its the illegals that come and work but decide to stay here thats the problem. And make sure they take their kids back over the border too.

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Immigration laws did not cause the "poor harvest"; the past practice of the violation of the law created the "poor harvest" instead of hiring LEGAL workers. Sorry, you based your business success on targeting ILLEGALS as your cheap ILLEGAL labor. Again sorry, your business is based on cheap ILLEGAL labor from ILLEGALS subsidized by the United States Citizen Taxpayers furnishing benefits for the ILLEGAL EMPLOYER'S ILLEGALS while increasing the "bottom line" of the ILLEImmigration GAL EMPLOYERS. The Pro-ILLEGAL comments from the farmers represent the ILLEGAL EMPLOYERS who benefit financially from their ILLEGALS at the expense of Citizen Taxpayers via our Education, Health Care not to mention the invasion of the ILLEGALS and the various crimes, murder, rape, and drugs that come with becoming a Third World Country