If we are to believe these rich farmers who get subsidies from the American taxpayer and also subsidies from the Georgia taxpayers who pay their employees free healthcare, benefits, schooling for their far too many kids and additional costs for incarcerating them after they are caught committing crimes. well already migrants (illegal aliens) apparently heard on Spanish TV all about our new law and they won't come here to work.

Unfortunately, the "migrants" who worked last year never left, nor the year before, etc. They just moved off the farms and into the arms of our public benefits systems. The law does not go into effect until July 1 but apparently they say it already has soured their slave labor supply. Keep in mind that Georgia is already subsidizing a half million illegal aliens, more than Arizona, estimated to have cost us over 2.5 Billion last year.

http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-poli...ge-958782.html

[quote]Migrant farmworkers are bypassing Georgia because of the state’s tough new immigration enforcement law, creating a severe labor shortage among fruit and vegetable growers here and potentially putting hundreds of millions of dollars in crops in jeopardy, agricultural industry leaders said this week.

Meanwhile, the state’s Republican labor and agricultural commissioners are discussing issuing a joint statement in the coming days about what they intend to do about the labor shortage, a Labor Department spokesman confirmed Thursday.

Charles Hall, executive director of the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association, said he has been in close contact with Labor Commissioner Mark Butler and Agricultural Commissioner Gary Black about the shortage, calling it the most severe he has seen. Hall said it's possible state officials could hold job fairs to steer some of Georgia’s unemployed workers to these farm jobs, which pay $12.50 an hour on average. The state’s unemployment rate is now at 9.9 percent.

Farmers, however, say they often have little luck recruiting Georgia residents to work in their fields because it is temporary, hot and physically demanding. To recruit more workers, some farmers are offering signing bonuses, Hall said.

The law doesn't take effect until July 1 but is already making migrant Hispanic farmworkers skittish, said Dick Minor, a partner with Minor Brothers Farm in Leslie in southwest Georgia who says he is missing about 50 of his workers now, threatening as much as a third of his crops.

Some farmers who work in Georgia’s $1.1 billion fruit and vegetable industry are now reporting they have only two-thirds or half the workers they need now and for the weeks of harvesting to come, Hall said. Farmers said the full extent of the shortages won’t be known until the coming weeks as they harvest their remaining crops, including watermelons and sweet corn. Hall estimated such shortages could put as much as $300 million in crops at risk this year.

John McKissick, who teaches and researches agricultural economics for the University of Georgia, said the farmers’ assertions about the labor shortage are plausible, but he could not independently confirm them.

“I have certainly heard reports of shortages,â€